Table of Contents
- 1 What is the syllable for favorite?
- 2 What is the stressed syllable in prefer?
- 3 Which syllable is stressed in the word academic?
- 4 When is one syllable stressed more than the others?
- 5 Is the word delight a stressed or unstressed syllable?
- 6 How to recognize stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry?
What is the syllable for favorite?
three syllables
‘Favorite’ can be three syllables, but most Americans will pronounce it as two syllables.
What is the stressed syllable in prefer?
syllable fer
E.g. In the word prefer, the syllable fer is stressed so when adding suffixes –ing or –ed, the r letter is double. If the ‘fer’ syllable is not stressed, you just add the suffix.
Where is the stress in the word favorite?
The word “academician” has five syllables with the stress on the fourth syllable. The word “favorite” has three syllables with the stress on the first one. The word “favoritism” has five syllables, also with the stress on the first syllable. The word “exhibit” has three syllables with the stress on the second syllable.
Which syllable is stressed in the word academic?
The word “academic” has four syllables with the stress on the third syllable. The word “academician” has five syllables with the stress on the fourth syllable.
When is one syllable stressed more than the others?
When thinking about syllables and stress in English, usually we find that one syllable of a word is stressed more than the others. There are always one or more stressed syllables within a word and this special stress placement helps words and sentences develop their own rhythm.
Is the stress on the first syllable of the word SM?
Words ending in ‘sm’ with 3 or fewer syllables have their stress on the first syllable (e.g. prism, schism, autism, botulism, sarcasm) unless they are extensions of a stem word. This is often the case with words ending ‘ism’.
Is the word delight a stressed or unstressed syllable?
To do this let’s use the word: DELIGHT. Most words in the English language have a stressed syllable and the rest unstressed. (In reality, the amount of stress varies on every single syllable but that’s relatively unnecessary to dive into.) When a syllable is stressed it sounds emphasized and POWERFUL.
How to recognize stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry?
Well, to answer that, you need to know what the meters are. For example, anapestic tetrameter means that you have two syllables unstressed, followed by a stressed syllable, and that is repeated four times in a line of poetry.