Read the sentences and underline the two-syllable words with the stress on the first syllable. Then put the stress mark (') on the words.

1.    The children will have a wireless TV in their future house.

2.    The robots will help her mother water the flowers.

3.    Her dream house will be a pretty palace in the mountains.

4.    There is a garden in front of the villa and a garage at the back of it.

5.    There will be two bedrooms and one kitchen in the flat.

6.    He’s painting a picture of the island.

7.    The girl lives in a pretty cottage in the village.

1. Put the words into two groups.

I. PRONUNCIATION

1. Put the words into two groups.

Exercise on stress on two-syllable words

II. Pick out the word that has the stress differently from that of the other words:

1. a. recently                           b. conduct                   c. attitude                    d. marriage

2. a. banquet                           b. schedule                  c. diameter                  d. blessing

3. a. birthday                           b. cowboy                   c. enjoy                       d. pleasure

4. a. disease                            b. humour                   c. cancer                      d. treatment

5. a. persuade                          b. reduce                     c. offer                         d. apply

6. a. farmer                             b. farewell                   c. factory                     d. fairy

7. a. cattle                               b. country                    c. canal                        d. cover

8. a. money                             b. machine                  c. many                       d. mother

9. a. borrow                             b. agree                       c. await                       d. prepare

10. a. paper                             b. tonight                    c. lecture                     d. story

11. a. money                           b. army                        c. afraid                       d. people

12. a. enjoy                             b. daughter                  c. provide                    d. decide

13. a. begin                             b. pastime                   c. finish                       d. summer

14. a. reply                              b. appeal                     c. offer                        d. support

15. a. profit                             b. comfort                   c. apply                       d. suggest

16. a. direct                             b. idea                         c. suppose                   d. figure

17. a. revise                             b. amount                    c. contain                    d. desire

18. a. standard                        b. happen                    c. handsome                d. destroy

19. a. about                             b. around                     c. between                   d. under

20. a. knowledge                     b. enjoy                       c. science                    d. sudden

21. a. because                         b. method                    c. standard                  d. wooden

22. a. ashtray                          b. music                      c. severe                      d. temper

23. a. farewell                         b. thoughtful               c. toward                     d. approach

24. a. bridegroom                   b. bamboo                   c. wedding                  d. survey

25. a. healthy                          b. remain                     c. alone                       d. accept

26. a. explain                          b. obtain                      c. promise                   d. suspect

27. a. confide                          b. agree                       c. maintain                  d. response

28. a. precede                          b. suppose                   c. decide                      d. finish

29. a. abroad                           b. noisy                       c. hundred                   d. quiet

30. a. passion                          b. aspect                      c. medium                   d. success

31. a. exist                              b. evolve                      c. enjoy                       d. enter

32. a. doctor                            b. modern                    c. corner                      d. Chinese

33. a. complain                       b. machine                  c. music                      d. instead

34. a. writer                            b. baker                       c. builder                     d. career

35. a. provide                          b. adopt                       c. happen                     d. inspire

36. a. result                             b. region                      c. river                         d. robot

37. a. constant                         b. basic                        c. irate                         d. obvious

38. a. become                          b. carry                        c. appoint                    d. invent

39. a. engine                           b. battle                       c. career                      d. rabies

40. a. attract                            b. destroy                    c. level                        d. occur

41. a. spaceship                      b. planet                      c. solar                        d. surround

42. a. brilliant                         b. daily                                    c. extreme                   d. protein

43. a. appoint                          b. gather                      c. threaten                   d. vanish

44. a. button                            b. canal                       c. failure                     d. monster

45. a. disease                          b. humor                     c. cancer                      d. treatment

46. a. persuade                                    b. reduce                     c. offer                        d. apply

47. a. farmer                           b. farewell                   c. factory                     d. fairy

48. a. cattle                             b. country                    c. canal                        d. cover

49. a. money                           b. machine                  c. many                       d. mother

50 a. borrow                            b. agree                       c. await                       d. prepare.

51. a. paper                             b. police                      c. people                     d. purpose

52. a. damage                          b. destroy                    c. demand                   d. deny

53. a. ancient                          b. attack                      c. alive                         d. across           

54. a. person                           b. purpose                   c. possess                    d. pirate

55. a. ruler                              b. river                         c. retire                       d. rapid

56. a. sentence                        b. suggest                    c. species                    d. system

57. a. attack                            b. defeat                      c. believe                     d. happen

58. a. release                           b. pleasure                  c. leaver                      d creamy

I. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others:

1.   a. nature                            b. change                     c. gravity                     d. basic

2.   a. darkness                                    b. warmth                    c. market                     d. remark

3.   a. trays                              b. says                         c. bays                         d. days

4.   a. knees                             b. papers                     c. trees                        d. bats

5.   a. because                         b. nurse                       c. horse                       d. purpose

6.   a. marriage                                    b. massage                  c. collage                    d. shortage

7.   a. enough                          b. tough                       c. laugh                       d. though

8.   a. breathe                          b. with                         c. thermal                    d. clothing

9.   a. education                      b. individual                c. procedure                d. production

10. a. released                         b. pleased                    c. passed                     d. housed

11. a. helped                           b. struggled                 c. remarked                 d. watched

12. a. airports                          b. suitcases                 c. things                      d. calculators

13. a. fills                                b. adds                         c. stirs                         d. lets 

14. a. cease                             b. chase                       c. increase                   d. raise

15. a. shops                             b. notes                       c. mouths                    d. books

16. a. jumped                          b. picked                     c. relaxed                    d. suited

17. a. hooked                            b. kissed                       c. traveled                     d. diminished

18. a. passed                           b. realized                   c. wished                     d. touched

19. a. enjoyed                         b. moved                     c. achieved                  d. liked

20. a. wicked                           b. wanted                    c. needed                     d. filled

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Write the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions from 13 to 14.

Question 3: (Stress of two-syllable words)

1. A. confide                         B. gather                         C. divide                        D. reply

2. A. promote                       B. divide                        C. other                          D. appeal

3. A. parent                           B. police                         C. women                      D. dinner

4. A. struggle                        B. common                    C. action                        D. police

5. A. adapt                            B. broaden                     C. award                        D. prepare

6. A. lemon                           B. physics                      C. bamboo                     D. decade

7. A. answer                          B. complain                   C. listen                         D. travel

8. A. hotel                             B. spirit                          C. banquet                     D. culture

9. A. answer                          B. survive                      C. travel                         D. visit

10. A. study                          B. achieve                      C. employ                      D. contain

11. A. suffer                         B. response                    C. include                      D. believe

12. A. answer                       B. complete                   C. polite                         D. secure

13. A. improve                     B. persuade                    C. open                          D. reduce

14. A. justice                        B. survey                        C. campaign                  D. knowledge

15. A. weather                      B. flower                        C. human                       D. canteen

Mark (') the stressed syllable in the underline words. Then practice saying the sentences.

1.   A’nalogy is the process of comparing one thing with another that has similar features in order to explain it.

2.   Audi’ology is the science that deals with the sense of hearing.

3.   Eth’nology is the scientific study and comparison of human races.

4.   Ide’ology is a set of ideas that an economic or political system is based on.

5.   Bi/o/tech’no/lo/gy is the use of living cells and bacteria in industrial and scientific processes.

6.   Cos’mography is the part of science that deals with the general features of the earth and the universe.

7.   Ca’lligraphy is beautiful handwriting that you can do with a special pen or brush.

8.   Bi’ography is the story of a person’s life written by someone else.

9.   Ocea’nography is the scientific study of the ocean.

10. Histori’ography is the study of writing about history.