Unit 32. Don't Look Now!

Sentences with All the Words Stressed
Unit 32; Part A
In a sentence, we put stress on one syllable of all the mostimportant words. In some situations, emergencies for example, all ofthe words are important. In this case, there is stress on onesyllable of all of the words (in some cases, the sentence may have onlyone word). Listen to the sentence stress in these examples.
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Unit 32; Part B
In English sentence stress, the following kinds of words are usuallystressed. The examples given are from the sentences in A above. verbs (help) two-part verbs (look out) adjectives (quick) nouns (emergency) negative auxiliary verbs (don't) ![]() |
Unit 32; Part C
Sentences with all the words stressed have a distinctive rhythm. You can hear this well in these chants. Listen.
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O O O Go straight on! Don't look down! Go straight on! Don't turn round! | ||||||
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Exercises
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