The word which differs from the rest in the position of the main stress is
A - Mature.
- One way to detect where the stress lies is by pronouncing all the words and finding the odd one of the four.
- A better and more technical way is to examine the phonetic spelling for each word using a dictionary.
- Dictionaries will usually put an apostrophe just before the stressed syllable or after it.
The phonetic spelling for each of the words are given below:
A. Mature - /məˈtʃʊə/
B. Nature - /ˈneɪtʃə/
C. Culture - /ˈkʌltʃə/
D. Measure - /ˈmɛʒə/
- Notice that options B - D have the apostrophe in the same place - at the beginning of the entire syllables.
- Ma - ture, however, has its stress on Ma.
- Hence Option A - Mature is different from the rest.
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