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English words have certain patterns of stress which you should observe
strictly if you want to be understood. The best way to learn English stress
is to listen to audio materials and to repeat them after the speaker.
Generally, common English nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are more often
stressed on the first syllable than on any other syllable.Verbs with prefixes
are usually stressed on the second syllable, i.e., on the first syllable of the
root after the prefix.
Word stress
English words can't have two unstressed syllables at the beginning of the word; one of
these syllables will be stressed. Prefixes are often stressed in nouns and less often in verbs.
Suffixes at the end of the word are rarely stressed, except for a few noun, adjective, and
verb suffixes that are usually stressed.
Word stress
The syllables that are not stressed are weak or small or quiet.There are two very
important rules about word stress:
-One word, one stress. (One word cannot have two stresses. So if you hear two
stresses, you have heard two words, not one word.)