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Pructus Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Accent

Hello...

Without specific context, when people say, “They hauled the lines in”, where does the accent fall?
On “lines” or on “in”?

I feel the accent should be on “in”, not on “lines”.
Like, in case of “took the trees down”, the accent must be on “down”, not on “trees”.
  

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pructus I feel the accent should be on “in”, not on “lines”. Not for me. As isolated sentences, I'd say: hauled the LINES in took the TREES down threw the SCRAPS out with only a slight secondary stress on "in", "down", and "out".

— CalifJim

  • pructus I feel the accent should be on “in”, not on “lines”.
  • Not for me.
  • As isolated sentences, I'd say: hauled the LINES in took the TREES down threw the SCRAPS out with only a slight secondary stress on "in", "down", and "out".
  • CJ
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pructusI feel the accent should be on “in”, not on “lines”.
Not for me. As isolated sentences, I'd say:

hauled the LINES in
took the TREES down
threw the SCRAPS out

with only a slight secondary stress on "in", "down", and "out".

CJ
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Oh, I didn't know that....
Thanks so much, CJ!!
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By the way, I feel this posting is arranged into another place.
I cannot easily locate this posting, unlike other postings of mine.

This is my original posting.
https://www.EnglishForward.com/English/Accent/bjxdgn/post.htm#sc2241521

But if I
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pructusThis is my original posting. But if I click, “fivejedjon and others replied to your question: ‘Accent?’ “, a different page shows, the URL of which is being shown only as " ", EnglishForward.com And there doesn't seem to be fivejedjon's reply.
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