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The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 13 - Making movies for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Listen to how these compound nouns are pronounced and mark where the main stress is.

Answer

All the compounds have a stress on the first syllable of the first noun except for security system and success story, where the stress on the second syllable of the first noun, and city centre, which has the stress on the first syllable of the second word.