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Coniple\ words - are of two major types: words madę from a basie stem word with the addiction of an affix, and compound words, which are madę of two (or occasionally morę) independent English words (e.g. “ice-cream”, "armchair”).

Affixes - are of two sorts in English: prefixes, wliich eome before the stem (e.g. unpłeasant) and suffixes, wliich come after tlie stem (e.g. goodness).

Rhythm - the notion of rhythm involves some noticeable event happening at regular intervals of time.

It has often been claimed that English speech is rhythmical, and that the rhythm is detectable in tlie regular occurrence of stressed syllables.

Elision - the naturę of elision may be stated quite simply: under certain circumstances sounds disappear, one miglit express this in morę tecluiical language by saying that in certain circumstances a phoneme may be realised as zero, or liave zero realization or be deleted. Elision is typical in rapid, casual speech.

Producing elisions is sometliing wliich foreign learners do not need to learn to do.