Chuyên đề Word stress pattern rules

esult	C. ago	D. coffee
23. A. waving	B. teaching	C. pointing	D. divide
24. A. student	B. listen	C. blackboard	D. between
25. A. traditional	B. professional	C impossible	D. decoration
26. A. economics	B. interfere	C. philosophy	D. punctuality
27. A. secondary	B. primary	C. fantastic	D. national
28. A. education	B. curriculum	C. technology	D. integrity
29.	A. because	B. method	C. standard	D. wooden
30.	A. ashtray	B. music	C. severe	D. temper
31.	A. farewell	B. thoughtful	C. toward	D. approach
32.	A. mischievous	B. family	C. supportive	D. suitable
33. A. desert	B. parallel	C. hummock	D. aerial
34. A. measure	B. pressure	C. unwise	D. sacrifice
35. A. attitude	B. partnership	C. actually	D. Vietnamese
36. A. survey	B. enormous	C. remained	D. mystery
37. A. diversity	B. marriage	C. engagement	D. importance
38. A. European	B. Victorian	C. Brazilian	D. Korean
39.	A. America	B. equal	C. maintain	D. attractive
40.	A. confide	B. reject	C. precede	D. conical
41.	A. expedition	B. exploration	C. Australian	D. Geographical
42.	A. appropriate	B. interesting	C. different	D. cultural
43. A. culture	B. engage	C. majority	D. determine
44. A. romantic	B. counterpart	C. discussion	D. appearance
45. A. bridegroom	B. bamboo	C. wedding	D. survey
46. A. supernatural B. explanation	C. redundancy	D. electronic
47. A. gymnastics	B. criminal	C. investment	D. excitement
48. A. financial	B. ambitious	C. refusal	D. evidence
49. A. confess	B. function	C. jealous	D. patient
50. A. possibility	B. manufacture	C. instrument 	D. disappointed
KEYS:
1.	A. comprise 	B. sandy 	C. circle 	D. northern
2.	A. Aborigines 	B. expedition 	C. kilometer 	D. scientific
3.	A. corridor 	B. enormous 	C. mystery	D. separate
4.	A. remain	B. hummock 	C. explore	D. between
5.	A. territory 	B. Australia 	C. geography 	D. society
6.	A. eject	B. crossbar	C. except	D. commit
7.	A. canoeing	B. opponent	C. boxing	D. defensive 
8	A. participant	B. publicity 	C. competitive	D. individual
9	A. interfere	B. memory	C. personal	D. vertical
10	A. award	B. defeat	C. refer	D. scuba
11.	A. social	B. conduct(n)	C. begin	D. value
12.	A. marvelous	B. attention	C. consider	D. excited
13.	A. verbal	B. whistle	C. precede	D. marriage
14.	A. attract	B. decide	C. reject	D. beauty
15.	A. solution	B. suitable	C. confidence	D. family
16. A. conical	B. determine	C. contractual 	D. supportive
17. A. physical	B. mischievous	C. suitable	D. romantic
18. A. ancestor	B. measurement	C. counterpart	D. appearance
19. A. commitment	B. inflation	C. collection	D. enterprise
20. A. dissolve	B. observe	C. publish	D. appraise
21. A. technology	B. psychology	C. reconstruction	D. apology
22. A. between	B. result	C. ago	D. coffee
23. A. waving	B. teaching	C. pointing	D. divide
24. A. student	B. listen	C. blackboard	D. between
25. A. traditional	B. professional	C impossible	D. decoration
26. A. economics	B. interfere	C. philosophy	D. punctuality
27. A. secondary	B. primary	C. fantastic	D. national
28. A. education	B. curriculum	C. technology	D. integrity
29.	A. because	B. method	C. standard	D. wooden
30.	A. ashtray	B. music	C. severe	D. temper
31.	A. farewell	B. thoughtful	C. toward	D. approach
32.	A. mischievous	B. family	C. supportive	D. suitable
33. A. desert	B. parallel	C. hummock	D. aerial
34. A. measure	B. pressure	C. unwise	D. sacrifice
35. A. attitude	B. partnership	C. actually	D. Vietnamese
36. A. survey	B. enormous	C. remained	D. mystery
37. A. diversity	B. marriage	C. engagement	D. importance
38. A. European	B. Victorian	C. Brazilian	D. Korean
39.	A. America	B. equal	C. maintain	D. attractive
40.	A. confide	B. reject	C. precede	D. conical
41.	A. expedition	B. exploration	C. Australian	D. Geographical
42.	A. appropriate	B. interesting	C. different	D. cultural
43. A. culture	B. engage	C. majority	D. determine
44. A. romantic	B. counterpart	C. discussion	D. appearance
45. A. bridegroom	B. bamboo	C. wedding	D. survey
46. A. supernatural B. explanation	C. redundancy	D. electronic
47. A. gymnastics	B. criminal	C. investment	D. excitement
48. A. financial	B. ambitious	C. refusal	D. evidence
49. A. confess	B. function	C. jealous	D. patient
50. A. possibility	B. manufacture	C. instrument 	D. disappointed
Stress the following words
interesting 	 
surprising 	
amusing 
successful
understand 	
engineer 	
benefit 
Vietnamese
 applicant 	
uniform 	
yesterday 	
employment
paper 	
tonight 	
lecture 	
story
money 	
army 	
afraid 
 people
wonderful 	
beautiful 	
difficult 	
expensive
excellent 	
different 	
comfortable 	
dependent
education 	
explanation 	
information 
nation
creation 
occasion 	 
communication 
location
combination 	
celebration 	
population 
association 
biology 	
philosophy 
psychology 	
anthropology 
ability 
minority 	
necessity 	
university 
diversity 
possibility 	
popularity 	
similarity
typewriter          
policeman
 Vĩnh Thạnh, ngày 25 tháng 10 năm 2013
 Người thực hiện
 Nguyễn Thị Hữu Hồng
CHYUÊN ĐỀ
WORD STRESS PATTERN RULES 
1.  Using suffixes to predict stress 
(A)  Stress the suffix itself: 
- ee
 employee        refugee            trainee          referee evacuee
- eer
 engineer          career             volunteer  mountaineer 
- ese
 Chinese          Japanese        Portuguese journalese 
- ique
 unique             antique            technique
-ain
entertain ascertain
-ette
cigarette laundrette 
-esque
picturesque 
	But: coffee      
  (B)  Stress the syllable immediately before the suffix: 
 - ial 
 memorial        financial            artificial               essential 
 - ual
 visual              unusual             intellectual             individual
 - ian
 Canadian       vegetarian        pedestrian            politician
 - sion
 explosion        occasion           conclusion            permission 
 - tion
 definition         production      situation             qualification
 - ient  
 ancient             sufficient          efficient             deficient   proficient
 - cious
 delicious          conscious         suspicious           judicious
 - tious 
 ambitious         cautious           superstitious        conscientious
 - ic 
 academic        energetic            fantastic              terrific             realistic
- ible
 edible                 flexible              incredible         impossible    
 - ity
 ability                 necessity            publicity        possibility       humidity
 - ify
 classify              terrify                  humidify         personify         solidify
 - logy 
 biology             sociology            anthropology      psychology
 - graphy  
 geography      autobiography     photography        pornography
 - meter
 kilometer         parameter         speedometer        thermometer
   * Các hậu tố không ảnh hưởng đến vị trí trọng âm ở từ gốc‘-able’: 	comfort /'kʌmfət/ comfortable/'kʌmfətəbl/’-age’: 	anchor/'æηkə/ anchorage /'æηkəridʒ/‘-al’ : 	refuse /ri'fju:z / refusal /ri'fju:zl /‘-en’ : 	wide / / widen / ‘-ful’ :	wonder/ / wonderful/ ‘-ing’: 	amaze / / amazing / /‘-less’: 	power / / powerless / ‘-ly’ : 	hurried / / hurriedly/ ‘-ment’ 	punish / / punishment / ‘-ness’ : 	happy/ / happiness / ‘-ous’: 	poison/ / poisonous / 
* Tiền tố: tiền tố thường không ảnh hưởng đến trọng âm của từ
‘en- ’ :	courage / / encourage /
‘un- ’ :	happy / / unhappy / 
‘ir- ’ :	regular / / irregular / 
‘in- ’ :	correct / / incorrect / 
(C)  Stress  the second syllable before the suffix: 
 - ate 
 operate           exaggerate           associate          integrate      certificate
 - ize
 apologize       criticize                 recognize           computerize
 - ary
 secretary         necessary           contemporary     vocabulary 
 - ous 
 dangerous     mysterious            spontaneous       simultaneous
      2.  Using Parts of Speech to predict stress 
          (A)  For certain two-syllable words used as both nouns and verbs,                 stress nouns on the first syllable, and verbs on the second syllable.   
       Noun            Verb                                   Example    1.  record         record                  The bank recorded a new record yesterday.    2.  present       present                He presented his wife with a beautiful present.    3.  conduct      conduct                They're conducting a study into his conduct.    4.  suspect      suspect                The suspect was suspected of robbing the bank.    5.  desert         desert                   The desert is so dry that it is usually deserted.
          (B)  Stress compound nouns on the first part/word:   
  deadline            classroom             software            typewriter           policeman          airplane    bus station       air conditioner       sports car       credit card         stock market    Great wall
           (C)  Stress two-word verbs more strongly on the second word,                but for their noun equivalents, stress them on the first part.   
 Noun:  Here's the printout.  
            She's a dropout.              Where's the checkout counter?             There was a holdup at the bank.               This clearly is a setup.
  Verb:   He printed it out.                 She dropped out.       Can I check it out?      Hold up your hand.  
  I'll set up a meeting for you.
Exercises
Choose the word that has the main stress placed differently from that of the others. 
1.	A. comprise 	B. sandy 	C. circle 	D. northern
2.	A. Aborigines 	B. expedition 	C. kilometer 	D. scientific
3.	A. corridor 	B. enormous 	C. mystery	D. separate
4.	A. remain	B. hummock 	C. explore	D. between
5.	A. territory 	B. Australia 	C. geography 	D. society
6.	A. eject	B. crossbar	C. except	D. commit
7.	A. canoeing	B. opponent	C. boxing	D. defensive 
8	A. participant	B. publicity 	C. competitive	D. individual
9	A.