Hello! I'm John Russell.
In previous videos, we explored word stress — saying a word louder or in a higher pitch.
Word stress is part of what makes an American sound like an American.
For today's lesson, imagine you want to describe something — a day, a person, a place.
Nouns and adjectives play a very important role in such descriptions.
And there are certain ways that Americans stress nouns and adjectives.
In general, when an adjective is followed by a noun, Americans stress the noun.
Here's an example.
It's a nice day.
The sentence has an adjective, nice, and a noun, day.
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