Word

Stress

Rules of
Word
Stress in
1. One wordEnglish
has only one stress.
2. We can only stress vowels, not
consonants.

Two-Syllable Nouns
and Adjectives
picture
cartoon
soda
pencil
teacher

lovely
joyful
cheesy
faithful
sexy

Two-Syllable Verbs
and Prepositions
relax
receive
decide
begin
review

under
beside
between
into
along

Two- Syllable
Compound Nouns
lifetime
blackbird
greenhouse
keyboard
baseball

Penultimate Syllable
Words ending in ic, -sion
and tion,
and -ious
educatio
graphic
geograp
hic
alcoholic

n
revelatio
n
discussio
n

delicious
glorius
repetitio
us

Ante-Penultimate Syllable
Words ending in cy, -ty,
-phy, and -gy
democracy
ability
photography
geology

Ante-Penultimate Syllable
Words ending in -al, -ise,
and -ate
critical
geologic
al
ethical

supervis
e
exercise
advertis
e

delicious
glorious
repetitio
us