Schwa Sound Words Start Practicing!

The Schwa Sound

All of these words have stress on the first syllable. The schwa sounds are in bold print. If there are two vowels, like ou, there is just one schwa sound.

buzzword	jealous	justify	effort	version
country	journalist	humorous	front runner	balance
flourish	journey	instance	comfortable*	vigorous
function	junk	summarize	recognize	work
funding	justice	company	rigorous	worst
* This word is often reduced to: cumf-‘tu-bl or cumf-tur-bl.

All of these words have stress on the 2nd syllable. The schwa sounds are in bold print.

because	appeal	statistics	condition	convey
encourage	apply	traditional	confirm	correction
accrual	attempt	combine	consumer	development
addition	attend	compete	contain	horrendous
agenda	among	observe	control	today
agreement	material	concern	convenient*	tomorrow
This word sounds like con-veen-yunt*.

These words have stress on the 3rd syllable: nondeductible, unpretentious, demonstration, introduce

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