ABSTRACT
As we saw in chapter 11 , words are made up of syllables. They may contain one syllable (e.g. school, class ), two syllables (e.g. teacher, student, exam, today ), three syllables (e.g. register, monitor, assignment, computer, absentee ), four syllables (e.g. exercises ), fi ve syllables ( vocabulary ), and so on. Where there is only one syllable in nouns like these, then that one must be stressed. Where there is more than one syllable, English tends to give stress to only one of them.
