Exercises
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 500.
1. ² Mark the accented elements of these words according to Gimson's accentual patterns. Read them.
2-syllable words: surface, widow, profile, over, under, common, stable, husband
3-syllable words: illegal, intensive, reaction, appetite, homograph, dictophon
4-syllable words: caterpillar, architecture, photograph, separation, sufficient, machinery
5-syllable words: aristocracy, consideration, satisfactory, excrutiating, coefficient
6-syllable words: meteorological, autobiographic, identifiction, electrification, variability
7-and 8-syllable words: unintelligibility, impenetrability, unreliability, indstrialization
2. ² Read these sentences to prove the distinctive function of the stress. Translate them into Russian.
1. Contrast makes it seem better. Contrast Tom with his sister.
It's because of contrast. It's because they contrast.
2. Export is forbidden. Export cotton goods. Cities export these goods.
3. This forecast is wrong. I like his forecast. It's what they forecast.
4. He's a suspect. He's the man we suspect.
The suspect is here. We suspect this man.
5. They gave way without protest. They decided to protest.
The protest was wrong. Protest against it.
6. A prefix is added. Prefix a paragraph to Chapter I.
It's a prefix. It's a paragraph they decided to prefix.
3. ² Place stress marks and read the words.
Centralization, modification, nationalization, anticipation, interception, overbalance, justification, hospitality, beneficial, satisfactory, sentimentality, impossibility, impenetrability, idiomatic, artificial, unaccountability, fundamentality, distribution, representation, characteristic, interrogation, administration
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