Task VI. Finish the utterances or fill in the gaps.

1. Regularity of occurrence of stressed syllables in English is closely related to another important feature of English rhythm … .

2. A sequence of disyllabic words which typically have one stress presents a similar pattern of … … … even though there may be a number of form-words between the notional ones.

3. It must be understood that the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables is but rarely of an … .

4. The rhythmic groups have … numbers of syllables

5. Stressing all the consecutive words is generally avoided, although there may be instances of … stress if the meaning requires it

6. The same tendency to avoid stressing adjacent words is observed even when these words are not … .

7. Polysyllabic derivative words, like examination, conversation are … in the accentual pattern.


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