The organs of speech

b) when they are followed by the contracted negative “n’t”

e.g. He isn’t a  teacher?

c) in short answers to general and disjunctive questions

e.g. Yes, he  is.

2. Personal and possessive pronouns are stressed in short answers to questions beginning with “who”, “which”, “whose”

e.g. Who speaks  English?  We do.  Whose  book is there? 

 Mine is .

3. Reflexive pronouns used appositionally are stressed

e.g. I myself shall  do it .

4. Conjunctions are usually stressed at the beginning of a sense-group when they are followed by an unstressed word

e.g. As it was very far we took a  taxi .

5. Many prepositions of two or more syllables standing before an unstressed pronoun at the end of a sense-group are stressed.

e.g. He went  after them .

Preposition of one syllable standing before an unstressed pronoun at the end of a sense-group are usually unstressed but have their full form,

e.g. Why are you  looking at them? 

Stress has important semantic functions. The word which is the most important in the sentence is marked by logical stress while the words following it remain unstressed or half-stressed as they refer to something known.

e.g. I know it not he or anybody  else. The book is  in the bag not on or  under it. 

STRESS (exercises):

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