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partial. Full sentence-stress in its turn may be unemphatic or emphatic. Full unemphatic stress is indicated by single stress-marks placed above the line of print, e.g.
'Open your 'books at 'page ˎthree.
Emphatic stress is effected by greater force of utterance, greater force of exhalation and lengthening the sounds. Emphatically stressed syllables become more prominent and sound louder than syllables with unemphatic stress.
'Stop `talking. (an order given quietly) .
''Stop ``talking! (an order given very loudly, in anger) .
P artial stress is indicated by single stress - marks placed below the line of print, e.g.
I haven’t the 'slightest i dea. There’s a `page missing from this book.
Words which are usually stressed in English unemphatic speech belong to the notional parts of speech namely: nouns, adjectives, numerals, notional verbs, adverbs, demonstrative, interrogative, emphasizing pronouns and the absolute form of the possessive pronouns, for example, the words in bold type in the following sentences:
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