Which of the words in the text are stressed and which are accented? Study the words in the two boxes below and divide them into two groups — the stressed words and the
accented ones:
created, charm, moulded, long, tradition, history (in "the history
that surrounds them"), history (in "the history of England"); answer, water, assimilated; character (in "what is the character."); character (in "the psychology of the English character"), achieve-ments, spirit, lived, conscious, look, shape, sense.
people (in "and the people of the 'island nation"'), still, runs, villas, impossible, free, traditional, Englishmen, royal, continuity, remind, sought, impossible, recognized, what (in "what were those achievements andjailures"), what (in "what is the character..."), non-English-man, failures (in "The achievements and failures of those centuries").
2.2.5. Study the cases of "and", "is" and "of" that occur in the text in terms of stress. Pay special attention to their behavior in the flow of speech, especially, at the "word-junctures". Why are "more", "rural", "English" and "stretch" phonetically degraded?