🔥 8 Easy WORD STRESS Rules to Speak English Clearly (Powerful!)

If you stress the wrong syllable of English words, native speakers may not understand you! 😱 Follow these 8 powerful rules to speak English more clearly and be understood more easily by native speakers.
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🔥 8 Simple Pronunciation RULES To Speak English Clearly 📢
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► CHAPTERS:
00:00 WORD STRESS Rules to Speak English Clearly
0:33 How to know which syllable to stress in English
2:12 2-syllable Nouns and Adjectives
3:23 2-syllable Verbs
4:14 Words that are Nouns and Verbs
5:28 Suffixes -ic / -tion / -sion
7:29 Suffixes -cy / -phy / -ty / -gy / -ate / -al / -ise
11:58 Compound Nouns
13:49 Adjective + Noun
14:32 Phrasal Verbs
15:25 Most common mistakes!
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► TRANSCRIPTION
What's the difference between hurricane and Harry Kane? And what's the difference between the Super Bowl and a super bowl? Well, the answer is word stress, and it's a really important aspect of pronunciation. And today I'm going to teach you 8 simple word stress rules so that you can speak English more clearly and accurately. Let's go.
So before we start, there is a simple way for you to know where the stressed syllable is in every word in English, and that is by just learning some basic phonetics. If you look in the dictionary and see the phonetic transcription for a word, there is a little apostrophe type thing just before the stressed syllable in every word. And every word in English has just one stressed syllable. So look at these words and also listen to hear how I stress the stressed syllable in these words. Photograph, photograph. Here the stressed syllable is the first syllable, pho- photograph. Photography, photography. See the little apostrophe before the second syllable? Photography. And photographic, photographic. Here we stress the third syllable, photographic, and you have the little ' before that in the phonetic transcription. So learn some phonetics, it will make your life easier, I promise.
Okay, so let's have a look now at these 8 simple rules. Every rule has exceptions in English, so maybe we should call them guidelines, whatever you want to call them. We have 8 simple ways for you to speak more clearly using correct word stress in English. So let's go.
Okay, the first rule is related to words that have 2 syllables. So look at these nouns that have 2 syllables and tell me where the stress is. Campus, county, maker, picture, water, entry. That's right. With 2 syllable nouns, the stress goes on the first syllable. Now, listen to these adjectives. Happy, pretty, royal, mobile, local. Again, with nouns and adjectives that have 2 syllables, we stress the first syllable. And don't worry, I've put all these examples and a summary of all today's rules in a free worksheet for you. You can download that PDF and get all of these examples and rules for your reference just for you. There's a link up there and there's a link in the description too.
Okay, let's have a look at some more words with 2 syllables. Okay, rule 2 also relates to words that have 2 syllables, but in this case, we're looking at verbs. So listen to these verbs and tell me where the stress is. Repeat, collect, forgive, allow, prefer, impose. That's right. With verbs that have 2 syllables, the stress is on the second syllable. And yes, there are exceptions. Feel free to write any exceptions in the comments, but generally, this rule is true.
Now, there are some situations where we have one word that can be a verb and a noun. So what do we do in those situations? Well, that's rule number 3.
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Technically, I pronounce “research” the exact same way as a noun and a verb: with the stress on the prefix “re-,” as does everybody else. That word is an exception.

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The -ise bit illustrates my first point. Organize. All three of those are neutral to me. The first might just barely be emphasized. Basically, it is by default, but it doesn't seem stressed. If I think about it, you seem right. When you said afternoon and understand, you gave an accenting to the first syllable in each. Af-ter-NOON...

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Hi Mr. Greg, is there any video about the difference between who, whose, whom, etc. I would like to learn about it, thanks Your student from Indonesia

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The idea that there is only one stressed syllable in every English word has challenged me since my youth. Still, thanks for the refresher. I had forgotten the noun/verb dichotomy. It has been three decades since I looked at this rule of grammar.

[@marlonbrenno2778]

A teacher of mine who speaks Portuguese taught me a method he learned to identify the stressed syllable within words in Portuguese that he also uses to identify the stressed syllable within words in English. You can make believe that you are calling or shouting a word like it's a person's name that is really far from you like across the street. When you do that, you can notice there's a syllable that takes the longest to be pronounced. For exemple , the name Jennifer. If Jennifer were across the street and then I scream or shout out loud her name to get her attention JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEnnifer , the first syllable woud take the longest to be said. Other examples: EEEEEEEEEEEMma RAAAAAAAAAAAAchel, JUUUUUUUUUUlie, A MAAAAAAAAAAAAAnda, JHOOOOOOOOOny, BRIIIIIIIIIIIIan trying this method with other words: DEEEEEEEEEEEEfinitely BUUUUUUUUUUUtter, MUUUUUUUUUUsic, sugGEEEEEEEEEEst aMAAAAAAAAAAAzing, UUUUUUUUUgly, aBOOOOOOOOOUt So the syllable that takes the longest to be pronounced it is the stressed one.

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What about stress shift? E.g.:I underSTAND that. (Bold letters indicating word stress) Versus: I UNDERStand THAT. That contradicts your statement “we never stress under-“ By the way,very interesting video you made.

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Hi Greg.. great explantions as always👍.. I would add the words to promise and a promise. That is another exception to the rule ( like to respect and respect. that you mentioned in the video).

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[@Denis-ew4ct]

Thanks, Greg, it's very useful but it is sensitive to know how many exceptions are. Otherwise, it's easier to remember how do each word pronounced. For example, the word "event" is a two-syllable noun but stress is on the second syllable. After the lesson, I hesitated about how to pronounce it, though before I used it very often :-)

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Thanks, Greg, and how 3 or more syllable words are stressed...???

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Two-syllables exception: practise, travel. Nouns: hotel.

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I have seen some very good English lesson tutorials but this is the best so far - I have never being conscientious about placing stress on my words, which might explain, why I sometime get some strange looks.

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question and respect have their stress on the root instead of prefixes or suffixes.

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Hi, can you help me, please! How should ask : what is the guarantee period of...? Or how long is the guarantee period of...?

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Hi this was really a great lesson. Thank you! I have this question, If I want to say someone's first and last names, which name I should stress and say it louder!

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Thanks Greg. Did you people use to learn word stress rules at school besides in the real life?

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Please do a video of difference between would-Will, Could-can should-shall and it's pronunciation and it's usage

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May I suggest a vídeo explaining the rules when to use THAT and WHICH? They seem to be used interchangeably but I suspect they aren't.

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Greg makes a video that people can understand easily but when it comes to deliver they stuck where to use like know or knew, take, took or takes etc.

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I was pronouncing "hotel" wrong for like 10 years :D Until I learnt the stress is on the second syllable (not at first like the most of nouns and adjectives)...

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Greg, can you do passive voice and active voice

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I missed so common ones like: weekend, online, advice (vs advise) etc

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Thanks alot to bring up useful to English learner. It's great. Seemingly 'Television is special word, right. I looked for in ductionary. That shows syllable stress is the first one Can you or some one help to confirm. Appricate for that

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