Exercise 2. The following three-syllable words have a variety of stress patterns. Read them. Remember to emphasize the stressed syllables

Exercise 1. Read the derived words according to the pattern

Unit 2. Stress in the words consisting of three and more syllables

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bitterness, idleness, laziness, membership, happiness, gentleness, eagerness, authorship, thankfulness, yellowness, suddenness, leadership, hopefulness, willingness, hopelessness, ownership, powerful, fanciful, powerless, bottomless, sorrowful, merciful, meaningless, limitless, meaningful, merciless, numberless, fruitfully, bitterly, happily, hopefully, rapidly, legally, hopelessly, normally, gracefully, noiselessly, harmfully, recklessly, jokingly.

b) □ ■ □ □

exceedingly, successfully, amusingly, distastefully, respectfully, accordingly.

Primary stress on the first syllable: February, elephant, translating, personal, salary, president, yesterday, seventy, strawberry, accident.

Primary stress on the second syllable: acceptance, vanilla, examine, tomorrow, policeman, employer, repairman, translation, gorilla, December.

Primary stress on the third syllable: overlook, kangaroo, gasoline, personnel, employee, guarantee, recommend, seventeen, absolute, afternoon.

Exercise 3. Read according to the pattern: □ ■ □ □

a)electrical, elliptical, intelligent, conservative, dependable, respectable, intelligence, retractable, impossible, imprisonment, establishment, artillery.

b)political, phenomenon, historical, original, monotony, comparative, infinitive, symmetrical, significant, ridiculous, necessity, astonishment, morality, authority, utility, activity, community, security, impurity, curriculum.

Exercise 4. Read according to the pattern: □ □ ■ □ □

Flexibility, documentary, satisfactory, visibility, opportunity, possibility, hospitality, popularity, elementary, regularity, personality, lexicology, university, contradictory, productivity, unilateral, chronological, probability, economical, relativity.

Exercise 5. Read the adjectives according to the pattern:

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evident, elegant, competent, consequent, confident, different, eminent, prominent, talkative, tentative, primitive, negative, practical, minimal, criminal, vertical, poisonous, vigorous, frivolous, critical.

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repetitive, competitive, anonymous, analogous, accusative, demonstrative, alternative, affirmative, electrical, grammatical, syntactical, mechanical.

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interrogative, chronological, analytical, agricultural, alphabetical, arithmetical, economical, astronomical.

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important, dependent, intensive, expensive, inactive, impulsive, impressive, aggressive, offensive, compressive, enormous.

Exercise 6. Write the words in bold in the correct column.

There’s good shopping centre. You can find almost anything there. There are bookshops, shoe shops, a travel agent’s, a post office, a hairdresser’s, a supermarket, everything... and there are a few snack bars if you want a hamburger or something. Oh, and there’s a sports centre too, with a swimming pool and a playground for the kids. But be careful with your handbag. I had my credit card stolen there once!

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bookshops	anything	shopping centre

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