Stress in English

Choose the word with different stress placement.

• consequent

• advantage

• determine

• suggestion

"How about we go for a coffee this afternoon??

Which words do you think are content words?

• how, go, coffee

• we go, coffee

• go, coffee, afternoon

• go, coffee this afternoon

Choose the word with different stress placement.

• document

• family

• familiar

• pharmacist

which is not the main levels of stress?

• Primary stress

• Unstress

• stressed vowels

• Half stress

"How about we go for a coffee this afternoon?"

Which words do you think are grammar words?

• how about we

• a

• we, for, coffee

• for

Choose the word with different stress placement.

• purpose

• divide

• careful

• problem

How many are there main levels of stress?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

Answer explanation

There are 4 main levels of stress: primary stress (main stress, full tonic stress), secondary stress (substress), half stress, and unstress.

Words ending in –ic, -sion, -tion have the main stress placed on the syllable (a)   them.

Choose the word with different stress placement

• comfortable

• disappearance

• inspiration

• epicenter

Over 90% of two-syllable nouns1 and most adjectives have the main stress on the (a)   syllable.