Say the following words with correct stress. Pronounce the parts given in bold loudly and clearly.

camel	balloon
decent	opinion
fearless	enormous
careful	fulfil
father	together
govern	degree
bottle	before

● In a word having more than one syllable, the stressed syllable is the one that is more prominent than the other syllable(s)

● A word has as many syllables as it has vowels.

man (one syllable)

manner (two syllables)

● The mark (‘) indicates that the first syllable in ‘manner’ is more prominent than the other.