How Did the Stress Move?
Grade 5
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Pick one family — energy / energetic or biology / biological. Write each word split into syllables with the stress in capitals, then explain in one sentence how the stress moved.
Answer key: EN·er·gy → en·er·GET·ic: the -ic suffix pulls the stress to the syllable just before it.
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