antepenultimate in a sentence
Examples
- Some loanwords, particularly from the Classical languages, have the stress on the antepenultimate ( third-from-last ) syllable.
- However, when the previous word is accented on the antepenultimate syllable, the enclitic causes the ultimate syllable to be accented too.
- This led to situation, such as in 2008, where Roland Darrouz�s scored the antepenultimate place but was still elected by his list as mayor.
- Emily burns down the house of her antepenultimate target Mason Treadwell, an author who wrote a faux tell-all about David Clarke, destroying his work.
- If Mr . Lauren's copywriters saved all their second-from-last graphs, they could claim to have " the antepenultimate collection ."
- This tendency is so strong in English that it frequently leads to the stress moving to a different part of the root in order to preserve an antepenultimate stress.
- A simple rule of thumb is that word-stress falls on the penultimate syllable of a word if that syllable is closed, and otherwise on the antepenultimate.
- For example, the English word " Arkansas " has antepenultimate stress ( i . e . ), but the loanword in Turkish has penultimate stress.
- The antepenultimate stanza also touches on the theme of economic emigration in search of work, a long running theme in much of Italy during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- A rough rule for word-stress in Classical Arabic is that it falls on the penultimate syllable of a word if that syllable is closed, and otherwise on the antepenultimate.