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Zajoman Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Verb/Noun Stress

"I object! We shouldn't use that object."

1. Where do I put stress in the verb and where in the noun?
2. Does that generally apply to all verbs and nouns of equal number of syllables?
  

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Hi.
You can say: "I do object!" We mustn't use that object!"
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I'm asking a totally different question. I'm asking where to put sound stress in the noun object and the verb object.

This is what I mean:
object - noun
object - verb

I just don't know which is which and if the rule applies to all words that are both nouns and verbs.
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Yes, it often happens to words to be different part of the speech.
In English we don't put syllable on the Nouns.
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I just don't get what you're talking about.

The question is simple. In the word OBJECT used as a NOUN, do we put stress on the first syllable (OB) or the second (JECT)?
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Hi,

"I obJECT! We shouldn't use that OBject."

Those are the stresses.
There isn't a general rule. There are several verbs and nouns that behave that way (example: record, increase, etc.), where the verb is stressed on the second syllable, and the noun on the first, but to be sure you always have to check on a dictionary.
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Thank you very much, Kooyeen. You've answered my question perfectly.
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Yeah, it's 2p.m. My attention goes away. My apoligy.
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No problem, Fandorin.
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Zajoman"I object! We shouldn't use that object."

1. Where do I put stress in the verb and where in the noun?
2. Does that generally apply to all verbs and nouns of equal number of syllables?

In these pairs, verbs take the stress on the last syllable; nouns on the first.
See for further discussion and a list of verbs.

CJ
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can you answer my question...this is my question..
where do we put the strees (')if the word is noun?

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