4. When a personal pronoun is connected by the conjunction
and with a noun they are
both stressed, e.g.
Your 'mother and
ˏ
I
≀
will be
ˎ
busy this
morning.
Some words belonging to notional parts of speech are not stressed in certain cases. The
most important of them are as follows:
1.
When a word is repeated in a sense-group immediately following, the repetition is
generally unstressed, because it conveys no new information, e.g.
'How many `books have you
got?
`Two
books.
2.
Word-substitutes like
one , in
good one , black one , and others are usually unstressed,
e.g.
I 'don’t `like this
green
fountain–pen. 'Show me a `black one.
'Have you 'ever been to the
ˏ
Caucasus?
I have `never been `near the place.
3.
When the word
most does not express comparison, but a high degree of a quality and
is equivalent to
very , extremely , it is not stressed, e.g.
He 'listened with the most pro'found at
ˎ
tention. 'This is a most 'beautiful
ˎ
picture.
However, when the word
most serves to form the superlative degree of an adjective, it is
usually stressed, the adjective being stressed too, e.g.
It is the 'most 'interesting 'book I’ve 'ever
ˎ
read.
4.
The pronoun
