Sunday, September 20, 2015

pronunciation - Why is interrogative pronounced differently from interrogate

The word interrogate is usually pronounced something like in-TEH-ruh-gayte.




But we pronounce the grammatical structure (or at least, I learnt to pronounce it) 'interrogative' as in-tuh-RAU-guh-tive. Excusing my probably inconsistent renderings of the pronunciations, what explains this difference, and why is there such a difference in stress?

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