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Sentence stress

Sentence stress. Which words in the sentence carry stress?. Distinguish between: LEXICAL WORDS (content words, open-class items) nouns adjectives adverbs lexical verbs STRUCTURAL WORDS (functional words, closed-class items) prepositions pronouns auxiliary verbs.

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Sentence stress

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  1. Sentence stress Which words in the sentence carry stress?

  2. Distinguish between: • LEXICAL WORDS • (content words, open-class items) • nouns • adjectives • adverbs • lexical verbs • STRUCTURAL WORDS • (functional words, closed-class items) • prepositions • pronouns • auxiliary verbs

  3. Placement of sentence stress 1 Sentence stress falls on the STRESSED SYLLABLES of all lexical words 'sort, ob'jection, re'ceive, Mc'Cartney

  4. Placement of sentence stress 1a If the stressed word also has secondary streses: international, observation, quartercentenary • show the main stress • for long words and careful speech, show both stresses

  5. It’s an international committee It’s a question of predestination

  6. Placement of sentence stress • Stuctural words may carry sentence-stress if emphasised in some way: (a) when cited: How do you spell "than"? Compare: bigger than me

  7. Placement of sentence stress • Stuctural words may carry sentence-stress if emphasised in some way: (b) for emphasis: I don't think I can do it But I think you cando it

  8. Placement of sentence stress • Polysyllabic structural words may carry sentence-stress: until behind

  9. Placement of sentence stress 4 Adverbs are usually stressed, even if they are technically structural words: She 'jumped 'off the 'table It's 'too 'late to 'change our 'minds

  10. Placement of sentence stress 5 Adverbs of position carry sentence stress: I'm 'not 'coming 'here a'gain I 'left it 'over 'there

  11. Placement of sentence stress • Demonstratives are stressed: 'This 'book is 'really 'worth 'reading 'That's the 'stupidest i'dea I ve 'ever 'heard

  12. Placement of sentence stress • Negatives are stressed: I'm 'not 'coming 'here a'gain We 'can t ex'pect 'everything I 'hope you 'won t be an'noyed

  13. Four weeks ago, with the finance system in freefall, Grimsson underwent a heart operation. He emerged to make a TV appearance in which he begged his compatriots to forgive him for making what - he could see in retrospect - was a buffoonish spectacle of himself as head of a country now perceived globally as an ostentatious upstart, and by some (such as Gordon Brown) as a debt-defaulting pariah.

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