Learning English Vocabulary
Word stress
Jul 1, 2024
Learn about word stress in English vocabulary through examples like photography and photographer. Explore the impact of stress on nouns and adjectives, with tips on improving pronunciation. Discover new vocabulary tips, a platform for luxury goods, and a podcast featuring Afghan musicians.
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- Word stress shifts with suffix additions in photography-related words.
- Photography can tell a person's life story through visual biographies.
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Exploring Word Stress in Photography and Geography
This episode delves into word stress variations in words derived from photography and geography. The podcast highlights how adding different suffixes alters the stress in these words — for example, 'photography' has stress on the third-to-last syllable, while 'photographic' changes the stress to the penultimate syllable. The host demonstrates this shift with examples such as 'photography' and 'geography' becoming 'photographic' and 'geographic', showing a consistent pattern in noun-to-adjective transformations.
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