SS2 Third Term English Language Lesson Note – Speech Skills: Stress Pattern

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WEEK TWO

Speech Work: Speech Skills: (Stress Pattern).

Comprehension/ Vocabulary Development – Words associated with Law and Judiciary

Structure: Adverbial Phrase

Writing Skills: Free Writing: Features of Drama

Summary: Summarizing in a specified number of words = Solutions to Unemployment (NOSEC. Pages 172-173)

ASPECT: Speech Work

TOPIC: Stress Pattern

Introduction

Previously, you learned that if you have a combination of two nouns, the first noun is spoken with more stress than the second noun. This is the Type 1 stress pattern. This applies whether the two nouns are joined when written, hyphenated or not joined at all. (It also applies to a few examples where the first word is not a noun, such as “a medical school”, “the legal system” and “the financial sector”. These adjectives are used to express the type of school, system and sector, not to describe them.) The vast majority of noun + noun combinations fit the Type 1 stress pattern.

However, there are some cases where noun + noun is spoken with the second noun stressed more than the first noun. This is what I have called the “Type 4” stress pattern. In these cases, the first noun is called “an attributive noun” and they act like adjectives to describe the noun that follows them. Since these first nouns function as adjectives, it is not surprising that these noun + noun combinations have a stress pattern that is exactly the same as (or, almost exactly the same as).

Type 2 stress pattern that is used for adjective + noun combinations. And just like the Type 2 adjective + noun combinations, the Type 4 noun + noun combinations are always written as two separate words, never joined.

I have put the Type 4 examples into 5 different groups. For the first three groups, (4a, 4b and 4c), there is a meaning of, “a second noun of the first noun”. Sometimes the meaning is a variation of that, such as: “a second noun for the first noun” or, “a second noun at the first noun”.

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