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Stress Rules
Stress Rules
Stress Rules
From each set of four words below, find a word which is stressed differently.
a. physical c. increase
b. activity d. significant
2.
a. various c. elaborate
b. purpose d. purity
3.
a. quantity c. believable
b. committee
d. commercial
4.
a. continent c. interest
b. permission
d. miserable
5.
a. product c. mistake
b. satisfy d. sequential
B. From each set of four words below, find a word which is stressed on
the second syllables
1.
a. amplify
b. analyze
c. altitude
d. Atomic
2.
a. definite
c. Description
b. adjective
d. interval
3.
a. musician
c. literature
b. difficult
d. virtuous
4.
a. envelope
c. excellent
b. ambitious
d. obstacle
5.
a. comedy
c. cabinet
b. cinema
d. maternal
C. From each set of four words below, find a word which stressed on
the first syllable
1.
a. identical
b. exercise
c. impatient
d. Arabia
2.
a. economic
c. tragedy
b. colonial
d. education
3.
a. experience
c. yesterday
b. maternal
d. physician
4.
a. parallel
c. efficiency
b. inferior
d. delicious
5.
a. consonant
c. deficient
b. refugee
d. exhibition