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(b)
When they stand for a notional verb as, for instance, in short answers to general 
questions, e.g. 
'Have you 
ˏ
seen him? 'Yes, I `have. 
'Are you 
ˏ
busy? 'Yes, I `am.
 
(c)
In contracted negative forms, e.g. 
I 'shan’t be in 
ˎ
time. He 'doesn’t 
ˎ
know it. 
(d)
The auxiliary verb 
to be
is stressed when final and preceded by the subject which is 
unstressed, e.g. 
I 'don’t 'know where he 
ˎ
was. 'Here we 
ˏ
are. 
(e)
The auxiliary verb 
to do
is stressed in emphatic sentences of the following type, e.g. 
`Do
ˏ
come.
I `do

hate him.

2. Prepositions are usually stressed if they consist of two or more syllables and are
followed by an unstressed personal pronoun at the end of a sense-group, e.g.

 The 
'
dog 
'
ran 
ˎ
after him. 
Note:
 Prepositions consisting of one syllable may be either stressed or unstressed if they 
are followed by an unstressed personal pronoun at the end of a sense-group. But even when 
they are unstressed in this position they usually have a full form.
I’ve a 'job 
ˎ
for you. 
 
 

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3. Conjunctions are usually stressed if they stand at the beginning of a sentence and are 
followed by an unstressed word, e.g. 
'When he had 'gone some 
ˏ
distance 
≀ 
she `turned 
≀ 
and 'went 'back to the 
ˎ
house. 
| 'If he `drives, 
≀ 
he may be 
'here at ↑any
ˎ
moment.