Homework Help: English

Posted by Janet on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 8:12pm.

My son has to identify stressed syllables with an accent mark and boldface for example forgot,because,daughter.can you help me??

English - Ms. Sue, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 8:22pm
forgot'

because'

daugh'ter

You can check a dictionary (Dictionary.com) for the accents of other words.
English - Writeacher, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 8:23pm
Stressed syllables are just those that we pronounce a bit more loudly than the others. I'll indicate that with caps here:

SYL la bles (stress on first syllable)

for GOT (stress on second syllable)

be CAUSE

DAUGH ter

Make sense?

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