10 Rules of Word Stress in English Pronunciation

There are 10 useful rules for English learners to study if they want to improve their spoken English especially in terms of rhythm and intonation. Those 10 rules would certainly help those students undertaking the PTE academic exam who are not getting a very good score on pronunciation and oral communication. The 10 rules will also make it easier for students to find the schwa sound, the most common sound in the English language.

[ChiNguyen-zjqf]

thanks for your video. That is a brilliant video. When I watched it, I learned how to stress every word. And It's extremely fantastic if you allow me to share the video in my next presentation. We are studying this theme which is useful to support my presentation.
I hope I can be asked for permission for this video from you. Thank you so much, and have a nice day!

[jayelee]

Very good video ! Thank you for teaching us .

[mainuddinfeni]

You have done awesome, upload more the rules stress and unstress for writing poetry, thanks.

[ishwaryasyes]

Is there any material for syllable stress?

[halam]

Please, this means that has no relationship with long vowels

[hanaakamel]

Thanks for the video . The verb increase has a stress on the second syllable. Now the adjective increased
Where do we have to put the stress in the adjective increased ?

[hanaakamel]

Thanks for all your efforts. I have a question which is not related to stress.
I am going to ask you about inversion. I am struggling with this rule.
Here the boss has arrived on time.
Why didn't we make inversion in this sentence?
We have started with a place adverbial. We should say
Here has the boss arrived on time. It would be nice of you if you answered my question.

[hanaakamel]

Thanks for this video. Usually the stress is on the syllable before the suffix ive
Offensive
But in the word superlative the stress is on the second syllable. Why ?

[budhabudha]

In the brigade word bri/gade 'i' pronunced as short 'i' sound
in the crisis word cri/sis 'i' pronunced as long sound 'i' and why

[christabelifunanya]

Thanks a lot
But there are a lot of exceptions

[saneeshj]

what rule applies to 'concise'? according to these rules, it is a 2 syllable adjective, and the stressed syllable should be "con", but it is "cise". Same with "pre·cise"

[rodrigoalcantara]

I have such a hard time trying to pronounce the words "effortless" "effortlessly" "effortlessness". There are two main reasons for this:
Reason # 1. The "t" sound: I know that in natural spoken english an american native speaker don't pronounce a "true t" like "tap" or "table", instead they pronounce a "held t" = the tip of the tongue touches the bony bump behind the upper teeth (AKA alveolar ridge), however there is no air release. I CAN'T do it naturally

Reason # 2. Word stress: In my native language, Brazilian Portuguese, when a word has four or more syllables, the stress can only fall in one of the last three syllables in a word.


In two syllable-words the stress pattern can be: DA da ( BOla, MAla) or da DA ( caJU, aMOR).
In three-syllable words the stress pattern can be:
da da DA (profesSOR, abriCÓ bamboLÊ), da DA da ( toMAte, baNAna, aÇUcar),
DA da da (sílaba, fôlego, música).

So, in a four-syllable word, five-syllable word or any other multi-syllable word, it doesn't matter how many syllables the word has, the stress can only fall in one of the last three syllables, so the stress patterns can be:

da da da DA ( last Syllable):
man je ri CÃO
da da DA da (second to last Syllable):
res pon SÁ vel
da DA da da (third to last Syllable) :
his TÓ ri co.

In English however, if we count the syllables backwords, the stress can falls in the fourth to last Syllable:
DA da da da :
*EF* fort less ly
*EF* fort less ness.

Another crazy example is the word "Veterinary" which has five syllables and has the stress on the first syllable or on the fifth to last syllable (counting backwords): DA da da da da:

*VET* er i nar y
I'm not accostumed to these stress patterns, so that's why is pretty difficult for me

[praveensheshadri]

It's not word stress it's syllable stress rules. Please change the title, thank you