JAMB - English Language (2012 - No. 79)
Answer the following question below and choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are underlined in capital letters.
demarcation
demarcation
demarCAtion
DEmarcation
deMARcation
demarcaTION
Erläuterung
Words ending with ''tion'' are stressed on the syllable before the ''tion''. Hence demarcation would be stressed as;
de-mar-CA-tion
de-mar-CA-tion