English language

The stress in the sentence

In spoken English, to emphasize a word from the sentence, we
use the rhythm. We pronounce the word strongly (with much
strength and with a tone more high). 

1. The stress in the sentence
As a word has a stress, a sentence has stresses too. The sentence
stress  is the stress on some specific words.
Examples:
You will come the next week. Won’t  you?
 Not this week.

To emphasize the subject, we stress it:
Frank did  it.

I paid.

Emphasizing an auxiliary express a contradiction with

What it said before:

You are not aware of the trip.

 I am.

He didn’t come, after all.

We add do or does or did to a base form to emphasize the verb:
You didn’t see!

I  did see.

Unstressed syllables very often have the sound /ə/.
/ə/  glas/ə/ s /ə/ f water
/ə/ pair /ə/ f books
/ə/  book /ə/  bout /ə/  meric/ə/  
She takes h/ə/  r brekf/ə/  st 
I want t/ə/   go t/ə/ Californi/ə/  

2. Rhythm 
 
Rhythm is also important in a speech. It refers to keep 
the same time between stressed words in a sentence.
Example:
Frank enjoys reading books. (Four syllables and four syllables stressed.)
As you might know, It will be a nice day tomorrow.
(Twelve syllables and four syllables stressed.)
We take the same time to say these two sentences.

3. Intonation: 
  
The intonation depends on the voice and the tone. Rinsing and
falling tones of the language give more than a meaning to the
sentence.
Examples:
Question:
Are you ready?
Didn’t he come yet?
Exclamation:
What a beautiful day!
That’s too bad!
Tag question:
It has a falling tone and provides a comment 
or gives an opinion. The speaker expects the other 
person to agree.
You didn’t call yesterday. Did you?
The street is crowded. Isn’t it?
Falling: sure
Increasing: with an exclamation mark: not sure

4. The stress in the sentence
Other examples:
[ə]glas[ə]s [ə]f water
[ə]pair [ə]f books
[ə]book [ə]bout [ə]meric[e]
She takes h[ə]r brekf[ə]st 
I want t[ə] go t[ə] Californi[ə]