Word stress

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How stress works in English words, common stress patterns, the rules for suffixes such as -tion and -ic, and words whose stress changes between noun and verb.

In these notes
  1. What stress is
  2. Counting syllables
  3. Patterns and rules
  4. Two-syllable words
  5. Stress moves in word families

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    1. Vowels
    2. Consonants
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    4. Word stress
    5. Emphatic stress
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