English · Astronomy and the Solar System
Word formation — singular/plural noun formation from verbs & stress patterns
How stress tells a noun from a verb
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
- 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)