Unit 17. 'Hair-,raising and ,Hard-'working.

Stress in Compound Adjectives and in Abbreviations.
Unit 17; Part A
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Unit 17; Part B
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Unit 17; Part C
Two-, three- and four-letter abbreviations said as individualletters often have main stress on the last letter and secondary stresson the first: the ,E'U the ,U'K the ,BB'C ,DN'A the ,YMC'A Abbreviations like this usually have stress shift. Compare: He works for the BBC. but: He works for BBC RAdio. She's from the UK. but: She's a UK CITizen. |
Exercises
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