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    The document outlines the typical stress patterns of different parts of speech in English. Nouns, articles, possessive adjectives, relative adverbs, monosyllabic prepositions, and one-word connectives are normally unstressed, while demonstrative pronouns, emphatic pronouns, possessive pronouns, quantitatives, numerals, ordinals, demonstratives, adjectives, active and passive participials, main verbs, adverbs, longer prepositions, interrogative words, interjections followed by emphasized words, and two-word connectives are normally stressed. Exceptions include auxiliaries in questions and verbals other than forms of be and have.

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    The document outlines the typical stress patterns of different parts of speech in English. Nouns, articles, possessive adjectives, relative adverbs, monosyllabic prepositions, and one-word connectives are normally unstressed, while demonstrative pronouns, emphatic pronouns, possessive pronouns, quantitatives, numerals, ordinals, demonstratives, adjectives, active and passive participials, main verbs, adverbs, longer prepositions, interrogative words, interjections followed by emphasized words, and two-word connectives are normally stressed. Exceptions include auxiliaries in questions and verbals other than forms of be and have.

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    Jones, Daniel An Outline of English Phonetics (1960). Ch.

    XIX

    SENTENCE STRESS TABLE


    NORMALLY STRESSED

    NORMALLY UNSTRESSED
    NOUNS

    Nearly all nouns

    Nouns with wide denotation


    PRONOUNS

    Demonstrative
    Emphatic
    Possessive

    Personal
    Reciprocal
    Reflexive
    DETERMINERS

    Quantitatives
    Numerals
    Ordinals
    Demonstratives

    Articles
    Possessive adjectives
    ADJECTIVES

    Adjectives proper
    Active participials
    Passive participials
    VERBS
    Main verbs

    Auxiliaries, affirmative form,


    in statements. (In questions the
    the affirmative form may be
    stressed or unstressed at will

    Verbals, except those of be and have


    Auxiliaries, negative form, whether in
    questions or statements.
    ADVERBS
    All adverbs except connectives
    Prepositions used as adverbial particles

    Relative adverbs (connectives)

    PREPOSITIONS
    Longer prepositions

    Monosyllabic prepositions

    INTERROGATIVES
    All interrogative words, whether
    pronouns, determiners or adverbs
    INTERJECTIONS AND EXCLAMATIONS
    Interjections standing alone
    Interjections followed by
    Emphasized words
    CONNECTIVES
    Two-word connectives
    One word-connectives

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