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    Sentence stress in English refers to emphasizing certain words in a sentence over others. English is a stress-timed language where some words are more stressed than others. Content words such as verbs, nouns, adjectives carry more stress than function words like articles, pronouns, prepositions which are less important to the overall meaning. Examples show the content words "bought", "car", and "yesterday" stressed more in the sentence "I bought a car yesterday" compared to the function words.

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    Sentence stress in English refers to emphasizing certain words in a sentence over others. English is a stress-timed language where some words are more stressed than others. Content words such as verbs, nouns, adjectives carry more stress than function words like articles, pronouns, prepositions which are less important to the overall meaning. Examples show the content words "bought", "car", and "yesterday" stressed more in the sentence "I bought a car yesterday" compared to the function words.

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    Sentence Stress MET 4

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    Valeria Fuentes
    Sentence stress in English refers to emphasizing certain words in a sentence over others. English is a stress-timed language where some words are more stressed than others. Content words such as verbs, nouns, adjectives carry more stress than function words like articles, pronouns, prepositions which are less important to the overall meaning. Examples show the content words "bought", "car", and "yesterday" stressed more in the sentence "I bought a car yesterday" compared to the function words.

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    Sentence Stress

    Jimena Flores – Milushka Soria – Valeria Fuentes


    What´s sentence stress?
    English is a stress-timed
    language. It means that SOME
    words are going to be more
    stressed than others.
    I bought a car yesterday.

    E.g.

    The dog is barking.

    This is my book.
    Content Function
    words Words
    • Bought
    • Car • I
    • Yesterday • A
    • The
    • Dog
    • Is
    • Barking • My
    • This
    • Book
    Which words are stressed in a sentence?

    Let´s see
    Content words
    They give information and meaning to the sentence.
    Which words are not stressed in a
    sentence?
    Let´s see
    Function words
    Grammar words.

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