This document discusses essentials of good pronunciation in English, including enunciation, intonation, rhythm, and stress. It provides guiding rules on stress patterns for words ending in certain suffixes like -ment, -teen, and -able. The document also discusses how to achieve good rhythm in English by marking sentence segments, underlining content words, and identifying the proper stress of content words.

3. Essentials of Good Pronunciation:
Enunciation
Intonation
Rhythm
Stress

7. It is the flawless manner of pronouncing the
words and sentence segments with regular
recurrence of stressed syllables without
phonemic jerkiness.
Content Words- stressed
Function words-stressed

8. It is the mode of uttering words with correct
accent.
Guiding Rules on Stress
1. Most nouns containing only two syllables
winlth -ment or -ship as the last syllables are
accented on the first syllables.
Examples:
ailment airship
comment friendship
garment hardship

9. 2. Words with -teen or -self are accented
on the second syllable.
Examples:
thirteen herself
fourteen itself
3. Words ending in -able and -y are in most cases
accented on the first syllable except JULY.
capable accuracy
humble family
variable finally

10. 4. Most words containing 3 or 4
syllables with -ment suffix are
accented on the second syllable
Examples:
abridgement department
achievement enactment
development empowerment

11. How to Secure Good
Rhythm in English
1. Mark the sentence segments with
proper juncture.
2. Underline the content words.
3. Find out proper accent of content
words.