2. Carry lorry hurry merry squirrel

barren torrent current error mirror

narrow sorrow furrow ferrous

narrative horrible currency terrible irritant

charity origin spherical pyramid

tariff forest perish spirit

follow borrow hollow sorrow shallow narrow

college porridge ballot parrot ballast barrack

limit spirit edit merit modest forest

party carry rally shortly sorry jolly

mercy merry penny scurvy hurry funny

parcel barrel channel shorten torrent cotton curtain current sudden servant errand lesson

corner horror hotter shirker mirror miller

marry Mary carry vary hurry fury

merry miry sorry story lorry glory

barren parent current plural torrent oral

error era terror tyrant mirror spiral sphere spherical pure purity cure incurable carry carriage marry marriage sorry sorrow horror horrible terror terrible err error bar barrister history historical similar similarity

warrant quarrel quarry worry care carry square quarry sore sorry wore worry

Read the following aloud.

Arrow, barest, barrack, barrel, barren, barrister, berry, borrow, carriage, carrot, carry, character, charity, cherry, claret, curing, current, declarative, derrick, Dorrit, dreary, durable, during, era, errand, error, Europe, experiment, fairy, ferrous, forage, forest, furrow, fury, glory, hero, herring, historical, hoary, Horace, hor­rible, horrid, horror, hurry, hysterical, imperative, incurable, jury, lorry, marriage, marrow, marry, Mary, merest, merit, mer­riment, merry, miracle, mirror, miry, narrative, narrow, oral, origin, parent, parrot, perish, plural, porous, porridge, purest, puritan, purity, pyramid, quarrel, quarry, rarest, rural, security, serried, sheriff, similarity, sorrow, sorry, sparrow, spherical, spiral, terrible, terror, torrent, Tory, tyranny, vary, warrant, weary, wiry, worry, zero.

LESSONS EIGHT TO NINE

SECTION XVI

Two-Syllable Words and Words of Three and More Syllables

Hiatus. Consonants before suffixes of the -ion type

General Review of Consonants

1. dial liar liable giant diamond dual lion violent triumph theory fuel science scientist poem poetry

Рое poet due duel died diet dries driest

trail trial gain giant lair liar dairy diary

noise ion oil lion fruit triumph feud duel

2. industrial twentieth barrier obvious

union million rebellion brillant

radio radius various variant

medial previous serious period

odious melodious glorious orient

filial bilious delirious myriad

3. annual - influence - superfluous manual - gradual - innocuous

dial - medial trial - industrial liar - peculiar

dual - gradual riot - period lion - million

union - unity furious - purity curious - security radio - radical medial - medical previous - brevity recipient - typical filial - cylinder myriad - pyramid manual - animal Samuel - family innocuous - document 4. picture lecture nature future

furniture lecturer natural century

question

5. nation motion relation dictation notion station solution completion position condition petition munition action direction conjunction connection mission discussion expression excursion division decision explosion illusion

Russia musician militia

social essential initial

conscience patience patient

conscious cautious anxious

pressure usurer usual

martial - marshal fissure - fisher patent - patient act - actual - action press - pressure - impression

music - musician office - official use - usual note - notion quest - question cent - century

missive - mission cursive - excursion relative - relation science - conscience million - mission delirious - delicious recipient – deficient union - fusion gradual - actual failure - nature

Read the following aloud.

Action, actual, annual, anxious, auction, barrier, billiard, caution, century, champion, conscience, conscious, cruel, cruelty, curious, decision, deficient, description, dial, diamond, dictation, dictionary, direction, discussion, division, efficiency, efficient, eightieth, essential, exception, excursion, expenditure, experience, explosion, expression, extension, fiftieth, fissure, fortieth, furniture, fusion, future, gradually, historian, historical, illusion, imitation, impatience, impatiently, imperialist, impression, indust­rial, inferior, influence, initial, intention, invention, invitation, lecture, lecturer, lion, manual, mention, militia, million, mission, motion, munitions, musician, nation, national, nationalist, natural, nature, ninetieth, notion, patience, patient, peculiar, period, petition, picture, poem, portion, precision, pressure, previous, ques­tion, radio, radius, rebellious, reflection, relation, Russian, science, scientist, serious, sixtieth, social, socialist, station, structural, structure, theory, thirtieth, torture, twentieth, union, usually, usurer, variant, various, victorious, violent, violet.

LESSON TEN

SECTION XVII

Two-Syllable Words. Prefixes and Stress

Words of Three and More Syllables; Suffixes and Stress.

1. because	before	behind	between
belong	began	became	behave
describe decide		defend	destroy
return	repeat	report	remain
prepare	prevent	pretend	present
explin	express	expect	except
enjoy	enrich	entrench	enraged
instead	indeed	invite	import
dislike	divide mistake		without
2. away	ago	again	about
alone	afraid	asleep	awake
advise	adopt	agree	amuse

address attack appear afford announce arrange accept acquaint

contain consist construct connect

compare combine collect correct

pronounce propose supply succeed

surprise survive forget perhaps

obey oblige occur upon

3. forgot - forgotten delight - delightful exact - exactness report - reporter profess - professor assist - assistant appear - appearance disturb - disturbance depend - dependence excite - excitement arrive - arrival refuse - refusal

4. construct - construction correct - correction protect - protection invent - invention except - exception complete - completion describe - description rebel - rebellion express - expression decide - decision explode - explosion conclude - conclusion

I. Read the following aloud, stressing the final root-syllable of each word. Consist, resist, enrich, within, forgive, rebel, accept, except, address, defend, reflect, forget, collect, connect, expel, express, correct, arrest, request, present, descend, expect, intend, pretend, protect, attempt, protest, entrench, prevent, invent, instead, perhaps, attack, began, begun, construct, result, forgot, across, along, belong, prolong, adopt, beyond, upon, reply, supply, succeed indeed, defeat, agree, beneath, appeal, repeat, complete, asleep between, obey, became, afraid, again, against, forgave, behave remain, repay, complain, explain, acquaint, enraged, arrange escape, ashamed, contain, mistake, awake, away, combine, decide recite, confined, define, behind, obliged, delight, dislike, alike, alive, remind, surprise, aright, arrive, describe, aside, beside, besides, divide, advise, invite, survive, ago, alone, explode, propose repose, approach, awoke, include, conclude, excuse, refuse, amuse, assume, apart, alarm, recall, because, before, afford, inform, explore import, export, report, support, reward, concern, occur, desert, deserve, disturb, return, appear, compare, prepare, declare, despair. II. Read the following aloud, stressing the root-syllable of each word.

Acceptance, accordance, according, acquaintance, adopted, adviser, agreement, amusement, announcement, appearance, arrangement, arrival, assistant, beginning, constructor, delighted, delightful, dependence, destroyer, detachment, director, disturbances, enjoyment, excited, excitement, explorer, forgiven, forgiveness, forgotten, fulfilment, importance, inventor, obliging, occurrence, producer, professor, proposal, protector, reciting, refusal, reporter, revolver, surprising.

LESSON ELEVEN

SECTION XVIII

Words of Many Syllables; Secondary Stress 1. regular - regularity national - nationality probable - probability element - elementary period - periodical theory - theoretical expect - expectation exploit - exploitation consult - consultation prepare - preparation combine - combination define - definition explain - explanation compose - composition repeat - repetition pronounce - pronunciation

2. demonstration – demonstrate illustration – demonstrate imitation - imitate hesitation - hesitate

communication - communicate congratulation - congratulate recognition - recognize satisfaction - satisfy

graduate cultivate organize memorize simplify qualify

3. understand undertake overlook overthrow contradict interrupt interchange introduce

correspond rearrange disobey disappear

introduction contradiction interruption intervention correspondence disappearance disappointment overseer

4. remember consider deliver astonish

continue develop imagine examine

examination imagination development astonishment

consideration continuation inhabitant remembrance

Copy the following and put in stress-marks in colours. Use red for the principal (or the only) stress, and blue or green for the secondary stress. Then read aloud from your notebook.

About, across, adverbial, afraid, again, against, ago, agricultural, alike, alone, along, aloud, America, American, around, aside, asleep, attention, auditorium, away, because, before, behind, beside, besides, between, beyond, biological, collection, colonial, combin­ation, comparative, competition, completion, complicated, com­plication, composition, concentrate, concentration, conclusion, condition, conditional, congratulate, conjunction, connection, con­stitution, construction, consultation, continually, continuous, convenient, conversation, correction, criticize, decision, decorated, decoration, definition, demonstrate, demonstration, description, dictation, discussion, educate, education, efficient, electricity, essential, evacuate, evacuation, except, exception, excursion, expectation, expedition, experience, explanation, exploitation, explosion, expression, extension, familiar, graduate, habitual, hesitate, hesitation, historical, illusion, illustrate, illustration, illu­strious, imitate, imitation, impatience, imperialist, impression, indeed, individual, industrial, inferior, initial, instead, intention, international, invention, invitation, material, mechanized, memor­ize, militia, modify, monopoly, munitions, musician, national, nationality, navigate, navigation, obligation, occupation, occupied, occupy, official, opinion, opportunity, organize, organizer, origin­al, originality, originate, particularly, peculiar, perhaps, periodical, petition, physiology, political, politician, populated, population, position, possibility, possible, precision, prepare, preparation, preposition, prepositional, probability, probable, procession, production, productivity, profession, professional, protection, purify, qualify, rebellion, recognition, recognize, reflection, regular, regularity, relation, relative, repeat, repetition, responsibility, revolution, revolutionary, satisfaction, satisfactory, satisfied, satisfy, separate, separation, similarity, similar, simplify, situated, situation, solution, stupidity, sufficient, superfluous, superior, suspicion, terrify, theoretical, university, upon, vacation; ventilate, ventilation, verify, victorious, victory, within, without.