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Individual words have a pattern of strong (stressed) syllables and weak (unstressed) syllables. In sentences we find a similar pattern of strong (stressed) and weak (unstressed) words. Short sentences tend to have typical stress patterns: oooO What would you like? oOo A coffee please. oO Coming up! oOoo How much is it? ooO Two pounds [...]

Exercise in Word Stress If the word has more than one syllable, we give stress to one of the syllables. There are lots of examples of how to point out what syllable is given stress. Hereare a few. They might look silly, but they are effective: We do this in three ways: 1. Make it [...]