Rules in Stressing English Words

Rules in Stressing English Words Mark Andrew U. Fernandez

MA English

Two-syllable English Words

Absence Accent Selfish

Compound Nouns

Blackbird Headache

Passport

Compound Verbs

Understand Overflow

Underline

Numbers ending in -teen

Fifteen Sixteen

Seventeen

Differentiating Noun from Verb and Verb from Noun

pr’esent-prese’nt r’ecord-reco’rd i’nsult- insu’lt

Intensive-reflexive Pronouns

Yourself Herself

himself

Suffix added to a word

Happy- happiness Assign- assignment

Cloudy- cloudiness

Words ending in -tion, -sion, -ic, -ical, and -ity

Examination Admission Economic

Serenity