EXTRA EXERCISE CHAP 6_GROUP 2

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. how many factors that prominence can be produced?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
2. Which of the following factors can be used to produce prominence?
A. meaning
B. length
C. spelling
D. kind of word
3. Which of the following words has the stress not fallen on the first
syllable from the beginning?
A. people
B. mango
C. before
D. after
4. Which of the following words has the shifted stress when a suffix is
added?
A. protect - protective
B. create - creative
C. educate - education
D. advantage - advantageous
5. Which of the words has the stress on the last syllable?
A. afternoon
B. teacher
C. student
D. economics
6. Which of the following words has the place of stress unchanged when a
suffix is added to the word?
 A. image - imageable
B. isolate - isolation
C. educate - education
D. philosophy - philosophical

II. DECIDED WHETHER EACH FOLLOWING SENTENCE IS TRUE OR

FALSE.
1. Stress is the pronunciation of a word or syllable that is weaker than the
surrounding words or syllables.
2. There are 2 levels of word stress: tonic strong and non-tonic strong
3. if a single syllable word is pronounced in isolation, it is said with non
tonic -strong stress
4. Complex words are of two major types: words made from a basic stem
word with the addition of an affix, and compound words, which are
made of two independent English words
5. Affixes will have two of the three possible effects on word - stress
6. English is not one of those languages where word - stress can be
decided simply in relation to the phonemes of sound
7. The prominence can be produced by four main factors: loudness,
length, pitch and quality.
III. GAP FILLING
1. The prominence can be produced by four main factors: Loudness,......,
pitch, and quality.
2. ……..is the pronunciation of a word or syllable with more force than the
surrounding words or syllables
3. There are…..main levels of word-stress
4. For nouns, if the second syllable contains a short vowel, the stress will
usually come on the …..syllable
5. According to many writers, the best approach to predict stress is to treat
stress placement as a…….
 6. If the first part of the compound is adjectival, the stress goes on
the…...element, with secondary stress on the second element.
7. For single-syllable words if they are pronounced in isolation they are
said with…….

KEY
I. 1C, 2B, 3C, 4C, 5A, 6A
II. 1F 2F 3F 4T 5F 6F 7T
III.
1. Length
2. Stress
3. Three
4. First
5. Property
6. Second
7. Tonic-strong stress