Word Stress Quiz

For each question, the correct choice is the one in which the stressed syllable is capitalized, as in voCABulary.

1. Can you pass me a plastic knife?

• PLAS-tic

• plas-TIC

2. I want to be a photographer.

• PHO-to-graph-er

• pho-TO-graph-er

3. Which photograph do you like best?

• PHO-to-graph

• pho-TO-graph

4. He was born in China.

• CHI-na

• Chi-NA

5. Whose computer is this?

• com-PU-ter

• com-pu-TER

6. I can't decide which book to borrow.

• DE-cide

• de-CIDE

7. Couldn't you understand what she was saying?

• un-DER-stand

• un-der-STAND

8. Voting in elections is your most important duty.

• im-POR-tant

• im-por-TANT

9. We had a really interesting conversation.

• con-VER-sa-tion

• con-ver-SA-tion

10. How do you pronounce this word?

• PRO-nounce

• pro-NOUNCE