Syllables in English
A syllable is a group sounds, containing one vowel sound. The following are the examples of one syllable
dog
watch
bike
thanks
spare
Exercise
How many syllables do these words have?
- Watches
- police
- Return
- happened
Not all syllables receive equal stress in English. Usually,In English only nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs and Yes/No and question words like where? and How? receive any stress in a sentence. And if a stressed word contains more than one syllable, often only one syllable is stressed.
The /∂/ Sound
The /∂/ sound is very common – but never in stressed syllables. It occurs in words like a, an. and the, which are almost always pronounced /∂/, /∂n/ and /ð∂/, and in many unstressed syllables.
The following words are the stressed syllables; they are in capitals;all the unstressed syllables pronounced with the /∂/ sound.
WOMan BUTTon CORner NERVous
aMONG aLONE aWAKE aGREE
Grammar- Prepositions
A preposition is one or more small words before a noun or a pronoun.Prepositions are mostly single words used before a pronoun, noun, noun phrase, or verb to express their relationship with the rest of the sentence.
There are many prepositions, some of which are as follow: about, above, after, along, among, before, behind, beside, between, by, for, from, in, into, like, near, of, off, on, over, to, since, through, under, until, up, with, within, without.
A preposition can also be a two-word or three-word combination. It is called a compound preposition. Two-word compound prepositions include according to, because of, different from, due to, and instead of.
Some examples of three-word compound prepositions are as far as, in addition to, in front of, and in spite of.
Types of preposition
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