Cover of the textbook Wider World 3 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Vocabulary in action 8 for the textbook Wider World 3 - Student's Book with authors Carolyn Barraclough and Suzanne Gaynor from Pearson Education

Question

Listen and repeat the pairs of words. Is the stress the same or different when there is a prefix?

Answer

  • The stress stays on the adjective.
  • Prefixes aren’t generally stressed.