HELP ME PLEASE

[muhammadfaleh]

Mark the main stress on the word below by underlining the vowel of the stressed syllable.

Example: hospital / understand



1. allow

2. prediction

3. controversial

4. photograph

5. photographic

6. photographer

7. prefer

8. preference

9. record (noun)

10. record (verb)

[raindoctor]

Prefer, allow, record (v) are stressed on the second "fer", "llow" and "cord"

record (n): "rec" is stressed. ord becomes urd.

prediction: anytime ya see -tion, you can expect stress just before that. In this case, it is "dic"

preference: "pref" is stressed.

'Photo,graph
,photo'grahic (note the suffix -ic)
pho'tography n pho'tographer (look at greek suffix graphy, logy, etc)

,contro'versial (whenever you see some vowel cluster like -ia-, expect the stress to fall on the just before that one)