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Week 5
Speech Work – Words of three syllables, stressed on first, second or third syllables
Comprehension: The Governor and the Princess NOSEC. Pages 66-67
Vocabulary Development: Synonyms
Structure – Structural Classification of Sentences.
Writing Skills – Popular Articles for Publication in school magazine (General Introduction)-NOSEC. Pages 191-192
ASPECT: Speech work
TOPIC: Word of three syllables, stressed on first second or third syllables
Words of three or more syllables can also be referred to as polysyllabic words.
Although there are no clearly defined rules governing the stress pattern of words of three or more syllables, some guidelines could be devised to help assign primary pitch prominence to the correct syllable. Some words become very long when prefixes and suffixes are added. Some polysyllable works may end in –ing, -ed, -ly, -al, -ic –ian, -ion, or –ity while the others may have such prefixes as un-, in-, ir-, mat-, pro-, and dis-. These affixes are not usually stressed in English. Besides, the presence of some suffixes enables a speaker to determine the stressed syllable in a word. We can therefore make the following rules based on the suffix that ends a word.
- Stress the second syllable from the end of word which ends in –in, -ion, -ial, and –ian
- Stress the third syllable from the end of a word which ends in –ity and –ate.
In the following groups of words, the stressed syllables are writing in capital letters.
Stressed on first syllable – second syllable – third syllable
DElicate – disCUssion – disaGRE
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