EXERCISES

Placing Stress
When you hear the word, repeat it, write the phonetic transcription and then place a stress
mark (‘) before the stressed syllables:

NOUNS
No Word Phonetic Transcription
1. Enemy
2. Collect
3. Capital
4. Carnation
5. Paradise
6. Subtract
7. Elephant
8. Observer
9. Profit
10. Entertain
11. bishop
12. aspect
13. affair
14. carpet
15. defeat
16. office
17. array
18. patrol
19. dentist
20. autumn
21. furniture
22. disaster
23. disciple
24. ambulance
25. quantity
26. cathedral
27. holocaust
28. transistor
29. accident
30. tomato

VERBS
No Word Phonetic Transcription
1. deceive
2. sharpen

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No Word Phonetic Transcription
3. collect
4. pronounce
5. copy
6. object
7. conquer
8. record
9. polish
10. depend
11. entertain
12. resurrect
13. abandon
14. deliver
15. interrupt
16. elicit
17. commandeer
18. imagine
19. determine
20. separate

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ADJECTIVES
No Word Phonetic Transcription
1. easy
2. complete
3. major
4. alone
5. below
6. yellow
7. early
8. sublime
9. heavy
10. alive
11. important
12. enormous
13. derelict
14. decimal
15. abnormal
16. insolent
17. fantastic
18. negative
19. accurate
20. unlikely

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