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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 /É™/. /É™/ glas/É™/ s /É™/ f water /É™/ pair /É™/ f books /É™/ book /É™/ bout /É™/ meric/É™/ She takes h/É™/ r brekf/É™/ st I want t/É™/ go t/É™/ Californi/É™/

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:

[É™]glas[É™]s [É™]f water [É™]pair [É™]f books [É™]book [É™]bout [É™]meric[e] She takes h[É™]r brekf[É™]st I want t[É™] go t[É™] Californi[É™]

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