Question

mark the primary stress on the following words - academy, object, surprise, application, myself, photographer, melody, amount, reduce, engineer

Answer 1

engineer..................

Answer 2

Answer:

• Academy- A’cademy
• Object- Ob’ject
• Surprise- Sur’prise
• Application- A’pplication
• Myself-My’self
• Photographer- Pho’tographer
• Melody- Me’lody
• Amount- A’mount
• Reduce- Re’duce
• Engineer-En’gineer

Explanation:

These are known as the suprasegmental feature of language. Stress has mainly three types primary stress, Secondary stress, and tertiary stress. It is given to a certain syllable or word. English is stress-based language.

If we talking about the rule there is no fixed rule to include which specific syllable in a word is stressed. The English language has stressed syllable is louder than an unstressed syllable. Stress has mainly occurred when a sentence and word is pronounced louder.