hey guys it's Sabrah from Love English here welcome back to our channel now
today I have a lesson all about managing stress so close your eyes take a deep
breath you're by a beautiful forest, not that kind of stress word stress stress on the
syllable of words which will really help you with your pronunciation guys you know what
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until it looks like that now in English where the stress goes on a syllable can
have a huge impact on the meaning it's the difference between ordering a
dessert yummy or a desert so as you can see where we put the stress changes the
pronunciation dramatically also if you can place the stress on the correct
syllable it's going to make you sound much more natural in English so what do
we mean by word stress well for stress on words with more than one syllable
means that one of those syllables will be stressed if there is just one
syllable the stress is just on that one syllable but if there are two syllables
three four five even six syllables then the stress will be on one of the
syllables when we say the stress we mean we're the voice puts more emphasis and
this can be going up in pitch or it can be staying on that syllable for a longer
period of time than the others first of all let me just explain to you what a
syllable is a syllable is a unit of pronunciation where there is a vowel
sound as soon as the vowel sound changes then we moved to a new syllable let's
look at some examples of this book book one syllable because there is one vowel
sound let's look at another word Apple Apple as you can hear there are two
vowel sounds a and le therefore two syllables
now where the stress goes can actually be quite er stressful however there are
quite a lot of rules which are very helpful and today we're going to look at
six of those okay rule number one is that when you have nouns or adjectives
with two syllables the stress is normally on the first syllable
so nouns or adjectives with two syllables the stress is normally on the
first syllable for example Apple handsome table funny
clever perfect can you hear the stress is on the first syllable
we don't say perfect or funny we say funny perfect the stress is on the first
syllable however there are a few exceptions to this rule just a few and
they are Hotel machine extreme complete so in those cases that they are
exceptions to the rule and the stress goes on this second syllable okay rule
number two verbs and prepositions with two syllables
when you have verbs and prepositions with two syllables the stress is
normally on the second syllable this is particularly the case for verbs putting
the stress on the second syllable makes the verb sound much more active which a
verb is an action word let's look at some examples attract announce collect
report around below an important tip here guys is that if you are not sure
where to put the stress or if you're trying to work out where the stress is
try putting stress on all the syllables so both the syllables and see which
sounds correct so for example remove it sounds correct on the second if you put
it on the first how does it sound remove it doesn't sound as correct so
always have a try if you're not sure to see how it sounds
and normally you should be able to hear which sounds correct exceptions to this
rule are verbs which end in ER or e n for example enter listen happen answer the
stress that is on the first syllable so exception to the rule is en and ER
ending verbs the stress will be on the first syllable not the second okay
rule number three this is when verbs and nouns are the same word but the stress
differentiates whether the word is being used as a noun or a verb for example
present present I'm going to present you with a present so the rule is when the
word is being used as a noun the stress will be on the first syllable if the
word is being used as a verb the stress will be on the second syllable because
as we said before this makes the verbs more active present present so first
syllable for a noun second syllable for a verb let's look at some more examples
of this rebel rebel he's a rebel he's going to rebel
what's that object what's that object I'm going to object a confusing
homophone which I want to mention is the difference between dessert and desert
dessert very yummy and desert very hot they have a different stress pattern and
that's how we know the difference between them dessert it's on the second
syllable desert it's on the first okay rule number four this is for three
syllable words ending an ER or ly now when there are three syllables and it's
ER or ly ending the stress is usually on the first syllable
for example officer manager quietly hopefully okay
next rule words ending in cy phy and gy now these are three to four syllable words
in these cases the stress is normally on the second syllable however it can be on
the third syllable particularly if the word has four or even five syllables
let's look at some examples of when it falls on the second syllable democracy
photography psychology transparency let's look at some examples of when
distress falls on the third syllable when there are four or five syllables
insufficiency inconsistency aristocracy methodology how many syllables does
methodology have let's check meth the dol o gy- five phew okay the final rule is
four words which have a sion ending tion or sion when there is this ending
the stress will come before the sion let's look at some examples creation
education commission administration accommodation permission the stress
always will come before the sion okay guys they were our six rules for
understanding word stress now I'm going to give you a little quiz a little
test to see how well you were really listening now I am NOT going to say the
word but think back to the rules I talked to you and see if you can
remember where the stress is number one where is the stress that's right it's on
the first syllable lover because it is a two syllable noun and generally the
stress goes on the first syllable in two syllable nouns number two where is the
stress that's right it's on the second syllable include because this is a two
syllable verb and so normally the stress falls on the second syllable number
three where is the stress did you remember I'm
sure you did yes this is an exception to the rule so the stress goes on the first
syllable because it is an en ending verb happen number 4 that's right this is
another two syllable verb so stress is on the second protest if this word was a
noun though it would be on the first syllable protest number five that's
right this is a three syllable ly ending word so the stress is on the first
syllable silently number six that's right the stress is on the second syllable
because this is a cy ending word and usually the stress is on the second
proficiency sometimes however the stress with CY ending words can be on the third
syllable in some cases as we saw before number seven last one that's right it is
before the sion so it is discussion well done guys I'm sure you did a great job
on those and I'm sure you've got lots of those correct that is the end of today's
lesson on stress I hope it was helpful and I hope it makes word stress a little
bit less stressful please do comment below guys and tell me any words that
confuse you when it comes to stress any words that you can't quite understand
where to put the stress and I will try to help you also if you enjoyed this
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