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The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7 - Making a difference for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Listen to ten verbs and nouns with the same root and underline the main stress. Notice how the position of the main stress can change.

Answer

  1. know – knowledge (note the shorter sound here – know /nəʊ/ changes to knowledge /ˈnɒlɪdʒ/).
  2. analyse – analysis
  3. assess – assessment
  4. define – definition
  5. inform – information
  6. interpret – interpretation
  7. worry – worry
  8. increase – increase
  9. refund – refund
  10. protest – protest