Sentence Stress

Sentence Stress

1. What is it?

   • Music of Spoken English

2. STRUCTURE WORDS

   • Don't carry much information (Grammatically Correct)
     • Pronouns
     • Prepositions
     • Articles
     • "To Be" Verbs
     • Conjuctions
   • DE-EMPHASIZED
     • De-emphasizing Structure Words
       • Reductions
         • Reduced "and"
       • Silent letter -h-
     • Contraction

3. CONTENT WORDS (Focus Words)

   • The most important information
     • Nouns
     • Main Verbs
     • Adverbs
     • Adjectives
     • Questions Words
   • EMPHASIZED