1. Stress Patterns in Prefixes & Suffixes Presented To: Mr. SOHAIL FALAK SHER Presented By: Muhammad Sajid us Salam Mphil Linguistics The Islamia University Bahawalpur [email_address]

16. Inflexional Suffixes: These are those suffixes when attached towards do not change their parts of speech or grammatical status. Another feature of these suffixes is that once they have been attached to a word, no other suffix can be added. Such suffixes do not affect the stress of words.

17. Examples: 'Picture 'pictures 'enter 'entering 'Table 'tables 'play 'played 'Simple 'simpler 'heavy 'heavier

18. Derivational Suffixes: Derivational suffixes are those which we use to derive new words. They may or may not change the part of speech of the word to which they are attached. Some derivational suffixes do not affect the stress while others do.

19. a.The following derivational suffixes do not affect the stress. Examples: 'Persona 'personage 'Hermit 'hermitage 'Differ 'difference 'Utter 'utterance

20. b.The derivational suffixes that bring change in stress are given below. Examples: Millio 'nair engi 'neer addres 'see Cava 'lier ru 'pee tru 'stee

21. Sentence Stress: Sentence stress indicates what words in a sentence are stressed. Look at the following example:

22. Examples of sentence stress 1) It’s a `door. 2)`Take a `book out of the `bag. 3) The `dog is a `faithful `animal. 4) `Bring me a `pencil.

23. Which Words are Stressed and Which are not: In English speech some words are stressed and others are not. In normal speech all nouns, demonstrative and interrogative pronouns, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs are stressed. The pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, helping verbs are not stressed.

24. Examples: Her complexion is fair. (Adjective) Who is there? (Interrogative) I went to Multan. (Main Verb) Ahmad is a good boy. (Noun) Marry went there quickly. (Adverb)

25. Morpheme Words Simple Complex Compound

26. Simple Complex Compound Care Careful Carelessness

27. Majority of the words in English are Polysyllabic. Means two or more than two syllables are there. Poly means many

28. It is observed that English has borrowed thousands of words from other languages French Latin Greek Hindi Let’s See How?

29. Per Permit Sub mit Submit Com Commit

30. Cata Catalogue ana logue analogue dia dialogue

34. Problems As we already have discussed that English has borrowed a lot of words from other languages which made things so much ambiguous.