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January 19, 2023
Stress on phrasal nouns: BURNout (n) vs burn OUT (phrasal verb)
How sad to see such a talented and caring leader resign today. 🙁
It's always the good ones that go - the bad ones cling on to power with not a care for their effect on others.
Ardern cited BURNout (n) as the reason.
I see this word coming up a lot nowadays.
- A lot of people feel burnt OUT (adj) by the stresses of modern life.
- Try not to work too hard - otherwise you'll burn OUT. (verb)
Notice that, like most 2-syllable nouns, the stress of this phrasal noun is on the FIRST syllable ('BURNout').
We've done a lot of work on phrasal nouns in the Members Academy.
Review features of the New Zealand accent (common in IELTS Listening Tests).
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