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The other class of words which are usually not stressed in
English unemphatic speech
are
form-words
, i.e. words which express the grammatical relationship of words in the
sentence. These are:
auxiliary and modal verbs, as well as the verb
to be
,
prepositions,
conjunctions, articles and particles, e.g.
She
'felt `hot, | 'took 'off
her
ˏ
coat, |
and
'flung
it
over
her
ˎ
arm.
“'Why
are
you
ˎ
late?”
“
You
must
be
`friends
with
him
.”
However, it is necessary to point out that
any
word in
a sentence may have logical
stress, e.g.
'Where `have you been?
'Where have `you been?
He `is a student.
A word which is made prominent by logical stress may stand at the beginning, in the
middle or at the end of a sense-group, and it is usually the last stressed word in it.
Some form - words are stressed in certain cases:
1.
Auxiliary and modal verbs, as well as the link –verb
to be
, are stressed in the following
positions:
(a)
At
the beginning of a sentence, that is to say, in general
and alternative questions,
e.g.
'Were you
ˏ
busy last night?
'D’ you 'like
ˏ
strong
≀
or `weak tea?
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