PRONUNCIATION CLASS

SENTENCE STRESS
TABLO OMER
ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR
CIEP-KUST
May 7, 2020
A- I never said she stole my money.
B- But you said that yesterday!
A- I never said she stole my money.
B- So now who do you think stole your money?
A- I mean, I never said she stole my money.
B- So, what did she do?
A- I never said she stole my money.
B- Oh my God, you are driving me crazy 
This is called sentence stress!
 Primary Rules
Content words are normally stressed
Bought car

Where Mary go
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Main verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, negative auxiliaries, WH questions

◦ Structure words are normally unstressed
◦ I, you..
◦ On, at..
◦ Do, can..
◦ This..
◦ A, an..
◦ My, your..

◦ But, we do not always follow the rules!

 Read!
◦ I watched a movie last night, it was amazing.

◦ I like your dress!

◦ I did miss you a lot!

◦ He is my lovely brother.

◦ Oh, my niece is very naughty, she always loses my keys.

◦ A: You're spending a very long time on my hair.

B: I'm almost done.

A: I needed you to be done and finished an hour ago.

B: I'm all done now.

A: Are you sure you're finished?

B: I don't understand.

A: You did a horrible job on my hair.

B: What's wrong with it?

A: I don't like anything about it.

B: I apologize.

A: That's fine, but I'm not paying for it.

B: Excuse me? Let's try to work this out, okay?

 More Practice
◦A- Where is my pizza?
◦B- I didn’t eat your pizza!
◦A- I didn’t say you ate my pizza!
◦B- But you think I did something with it.