Example sentences of "on the first syllable " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first morning we met you asked me to show you the way to the matriculation class , putting a very strong stress on the first syllable . |
| 2 | In normal speech , English has a rhythm because particular syllables are emphasised , making a pattern of stress : Normally , the stress falls on the first syllable of a word , but not always , as the examples above show . |
| 3 | Languages in this category include French , with stress on the last syllable of a word ( or phrase ) ; Polish , with stress on the penultimate ( next to the last ) syllable ; and Finnish , with stress on the first syllable . |
| 4 | The rules are not always as simple s that , e.g. Classical Arabic has the stress on the first long syllable of the word , or on the first syllable if there are no long syllables in the word . |
| 5 | For example , when words which should have stress on the first syllable were said with stress on the second syllable , they were misinterpreted . |
| 6 | It is therefore very difficult for a Swedish speaker to remember to put the stress on the English word on the first syllable ( by the time you remember it is too late ! ) |
| 7 | The information on a modern laser disc ( often called ‘ compact disc ’ , which is a pity , because the name is uninformative and also usually mispronounced with the stress on the first syllable ) is digital , stored in a series of tiny pits , each of which is either definitely there or definitely not there : there are no half measures . |
| 8 | As with most stress rules , there are exceptions , for example ‘ honest ’ , ‘ perfect ’ or , both of which end with two consonants but are stressed on the first syllable . |
| 9 | Nouns require a different rule : if the second syllable contains a short vowel the stress will usually come on the first syllable . |
| 10 | If the final syllable is of this type , the stress will usually be placed on the first syllable . |
| 11 | In the examples given , which seem to be the most common , the primary stress is on the first syllable of the suffix . |
| 12 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |