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Stress in sentences

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A presentation about of the rules of Stress in sentences

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A presentation about of the rules of Stress in sentences

by Neilly Tatiana Puertas
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Stress in sentences

Sentence stress is the music of spoken English.  Like word stress, sentence stress can help you to understand spoken English, especially when spoken fast

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Rules for Sentence Stress in English

The basic rules of sentence stress are:

  1. content words are stressed
  2. structure words are unstressed
  3. the time between stressed words is always the same
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Content words - stressed

Words carrying the meaning      Example  main verbs                                   SELL, GIVE, EMPLOYnouns                                            CAR, MUSIC, MARY adjectives                                     RED, BIG, INTERESTING adverbs                                        QUICKLY, LOUDLY, NEVER negative auxiliaries                      DON'T, AREN'T, CAN'T
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structure words

Words for correct grammar Example pronouns he, we, they -prepositions on, at, into articles a, an, the -conjunctions and, but, because auxiliary verbs do, be, have, can, must
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example

the words in Capital letters express th Stress of the words in a sentence or phrase: try to read making the correct accent. 

I am a proFESsional phoTOgrapher whose MAIN INterest is to TAKE SPEcial, BLACK and WHITE PHOtographs that exHIBit ABstract MEANings in their photoGRAPHic STRUCture
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