Word Stress and Sentence Stress

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Mastering Word and Sentence Stress

Enhance your understanding of word stress and sentence stress in English with this engaging quiz. Tailored for learners at all levels, this quiz helps to reinforce your skills in identifying stressed and unstressed words in sentences.

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Focus on content and structure words
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15 Questions4 MinutesCreated by StressingWords24

Which words in a sentence are usually stressed?

Content words

Structure words

When speaking English, we try to create a rhythm in which the time between stressed words is

the same

Different

Which is a list of content words?

They, should've, through

Donald's, eyes, small

On, at, clothes

We, every, him

Which are NOT usually stressed?

Prepositions, articles, pronouns, conjunctions

Nouns, main verbs, adjectives, adverbs

Prepositions, articles,nouns, main verbs

Adjectives, adverbs,pronouns, conjunctions

Which stress pattern corrects this statement? "I'm sure they work for the police."

THEY don't, but WE do.

They don't, BUT we do

Content words are the words that express the meaning of a sentence

True

False

What are the content words in the following sentence: " John wants to take a photo of the river"

Of, a, to , John

John, to, take, photo

John, want, take, photo, river

To, take, photo, a, river

In phrasal verbs, we stress the verbs, not the prepositions

True

False

In compound nouns, we stress the first element.

True

False

Function words (or structure words) are always stressed in a sentence.

False

True

Which is the normal neutral stress pattern?

They WENT to LONDON to VISIT the QUEEN.

THEY went to LONDON to visit the QUEEN

They went to London to visit the queen

Which word/ phrase has the different stress?

Swimming pool

Deep pool

Credit card

Bus driver

Thought groups are words naturally belong together as a grammatical unit

True

False

What are the function words in the sentence: "She made a short stop at the traffic light"

She, made, a the

A, at, the

She, a, at the

Short, stop, traffic, light

Which phrase does not have the correct word stress?

Back DOWN

MBa

FbI

Give UP

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