2023 WAEC Oral English: Problems on Different Stress Pattern (No 41-45) @vconceptsonline

Problems on different stress pattern are relatively easy to handle. In this section, students are asked to identify the stress pattern of a given set of words and to pick out an option that has a different stress pattern as the correct answer. The following are the steps that you can take to answer questions in this section: 1. Go through all the options and identify the stress pattern of each of the given words. 2. Stress the first syllable of a disyllabic word if the word is a noun or an adjective. 3. Stress the second syllable of a disyllabic word if the word is a verb. 4. Stress the second syllable to the end of a word that ends with -ic, -ion, -al 5. Stress the third syllable to the end of a word that ends with -ate, -cy, -ect, -ent, -ence 6. Stress the fourth syllable to the end of a word that ends with -ive, -ure, -aire. 7. Finally, pick out the word with a different stress pattern among them and mark the option as the correct answer. #vconcepts #collegeenglish #oralenglish #differentstresspattern