{"id":2959,"date":"2023-10-04T08:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T08:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2023-10-04T08:27:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T08:27:51","slug":"week-6-ss2-first-term-english-language-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-6-ss2-first-term-english-language-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6 – SS2 First Term English Language Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0ENGLISH LANGUAGE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06TH<\/sup> WEEK\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SS2
\n<\/strong>TOPIC: STRESS
\n<\/strong>
\n\u00a0Stress means the extra force usually applied when pronouncing a partivular word or syllable. In other words, it refers to a property of syllables which make them stand out as more noticabe than others.
\nStress can also be described as the contrast between different degrees of breath \u2013 force given to syllables in English.
\nStress embraces three clear categories. They are word stress, sentence stress and emphatic stress.
\nWORD STRESS
\nWord stress is more or less fixed. Each word possesses strong\/weak stresses which is content words in English. These are Nouns, Adverbs, Verbs and Adjectives. It begins strongly at the beginning of the stress and dies down at the end of the syllable. It is often made wit stable pitch.
\nIn speech we use words of one, two or more syllables. In any words of more than one syllable, one syllable is stressed and the other syllable normally has a lesser degree of stress. In English, there are three degrees of stress:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Primary \/ strong stress\n<\/li>\n
  2. Secondary stress\n<\/li>\n
  3. Unstressed \/ weak syllable\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Stress placement is shown
    \n(i) By either placing a mark (‘) at the beginning of the stressed syllable, for example ‘contest con’test.
    \n(ii) OR by capitalizing the letters of the stressed syllable: for example CONtest, contest.<\/p>\n

    \u00a0Primary\/strong\/stressed syllable
    \nIt is a syllable pronounced with greater or much effort. It is indicated by placing a STROKE (‘) or top before the syllable sound to be stressed but in this work, the stressed shall be written in capital letter
    \nPrimary stress on
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