Word Stress and Sentence Stress
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.
Key features:
- Multiple choice and checkbox questions
- Focus on content and structure words
- Practical examples to apply your knowledge
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
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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