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face preface surface
some handsome troublesome fast fasten hold fast
pronunciation of c, g, s, ch, e
city receive cycle cat cut cost class giant germ gym gate guest goat glass grasp
resolve result resource resume dissolve assume post solve child teacher machine chef chaos face have café resume Nike Daphne catastrophe simile hyperbole
（三）Word Stress Rules
Part one: 3rd syllable from the end 1. -ate verbal suffix hesitate separate graduate accelerate humiliate appropriate (final syllable) debate create relate berate locate
2. -ity -y electricity facility creativity sensitivity ability probability curiosity generosity photography economy geography calligraphy geology biology archaeology anthropology
Part two: 2nd syllable from the end 3. -ic electric economic graphic historic Panasonic prosodic Arabic rhetoric -ical
electrical economical historical critical political physical
4. -tion
exploration preparation deformation invitation combination imagination
exhibit - exhibition explain - explanation expect - expectation pronunciation of -ex /eks/ stressed exercise expert execute /iks/ unstressed and followed by a consonant experiment expect explain
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/igz/ unstressed and followed by a vowel exam exact exert exist exhibit
5.-ial -ual -al industry-industrial commerce – commercial editor-editorial habit - habitual context - contextual concept-conceptual government-governmental environment – environmental parent – parental origin – original
national educational traditional spiritual
6. -ian
academy-academician beauty-beautician Canada-Canadian
electric-electrician history-historian magic-magician mathematic-mathematician music-musician politics-politician technique-technician
7. -aceous, -acious, -aneous, -ageous herbaceous foliaceous vivacious spacious loquacious voracious simultaneous extraneous spontaneous miscellaneous courageous outrageous
dangerous, murderous, monstrous, religious, ridiculous ferocious, harmonious,
8. -arian, -ariat, -arium librarian vegetarian humanitarian parliamentarian doctrinarian utilitarian barbarian secretariat proletariat planetarium aquarium
9. –escent adolescent liquescent
Part three: stressed on the final syllable 10. -ee, -eer, -ese, -ette -aire -ade -enne -esque employee interviewee trainee examinee pioneer engineer mountaineer profiteer volunteer domineer Japanese Chinese Vietnamese Portugese Burmese cigarette statuette coquette storiette etiquette
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silhouette millionaire billionaire questionnaire solitaire lemonade arcade blockade parade grenade decade comedienne tragedienne picturesque grotesque burlesque statuesque
Three more tendencies:
1. Nouns tend to be stressed on the first syllable.
2. Verbs, adjectives and others tend to be stressed on the first root. differ, 3. Polysyllabic words tend to be stressed on the third syllable from the end.
paralysis, analysis, ridiculous, relative, comparative, executive, resultative, causative,
imaginative, native, active
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