It’s very important to know which syllable should be stress when you’re speaking English

Right now I’m going to give you a little test

There are going to be some on this board and I want you to ask yourself which syllable should be
stressed

Take a loot at these words on the screen and decide which syllable you think should be stressed

You can copy these words on this page and underline the letter that you think should be stressed.

If you have a lot of these wrong don’t be discouraged

These are very common words that a lot of people make mistakes on
Many of my students get the majority of these words wrong
I wanted to show you how difficult syllable stress is and how important it is for you to be
motivated to study these things in detail

In the following lessons I will teach you some rules of syllable stress
Alright let’s learn some rules now

How is the word invalid pronounced in these two sentences? In what way do they differ?