English · Astronomy and the Solar System

Word formation — singular/plural noun formation from verbs & stress patterns

How stress tells a noun from a verb

  • Experimental sciences important
  • Mathematics important
  • Engineering important
  • Management and economics important

6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Forming singular/plural nouns from verbs
  • Stress on two-syllable verbs; stress shift from noun to verb

The method

  1. Say the word pair aloud to feel the stress move between noun and verb forms

The common mistakes

  • Wrong stress placement changing a noun into a verb reading

From the lesson

Read these two sentences from a mission log. The word record appears in both, but it is not doing the same job each time.

The vocabulary

  • a record / to record (سجل / يسجل)

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