Stressed and unstressed words in English pronunciation

Learning long words How many syllables does each word have? Which syllable is stressed?

Stressed Words Nouns e.g. kitchen, peter (most) principle verbs e.g. visit, construct Adjectives e.g. beautiful, interesting Adverbs e.g. often, carefully

Non-stressed words Determiners e.g. the, a, some, a few Auxiliary verbs e.g. don't, am, can, were prepositions e.g. before, next to, opposite Conjunctions e.g. but, while, as pronouns e.g. they, she, us

Find stressed words Mark the stressed words in the following sentences. After you have found the stressed words, practice reading the sentences aloud.

1. John is coming over tonight. We are going to work on our homework together.
2. Ecstasy is an extremely dangerous drug.
3. We should have visited some more castles while we were travelling through the back roads of France.
4. Jack bought a new car last Friday.
5. They are looking forward to your visiting them next January.
6. Exciting discoveries lie in Tom's future.
7. Would you like to come over and play a game of chess?
8. They have been having to work hard these last few months on their challenging experiment.
9. Shakespeare wrote passionate, moving poetry.
10. As you might have expected, he has just thought of a new approach to the problem.