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Musicgold Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Am I stressing correct words? Jazz Chants 2
Hi,
Could you please check if I am stressing correct words in the following lines from 'Jazz Chants'?
Poem - It’s got to be somewhere
Where is it?
Take it easy!
Try to remember.
Oh, here it is, here it is!
Thank heavens!
Tall Trees
Big, tall trees
Selfish
This is mine! That is yours!
Don’t touch mine! get your own!
What are you doing with that?
What’s hers is hers.
Thanks,
MG.
Could you please check if I am stressing correct words in the following lines from 'Jazz Chants'?
Poem - It’s got to be somewhere
Where is it?
Take it easy!
Try to remember.
Oh, here it is, here it is!
Thank heavens!
Tall Trees
Big, tall trees
Selfish
This is mine! That is yours!
Don’t touch mine! get your own!
What are you doing with that?
What’s hers is hers.
Thanks,
MG.
Top answer
Where ' is it? ' Take it '' easy! ' Try to re '' member.
- Where ' is it?
- ' Take it '' easy!
- ' Try to re '' member.
- Oh, ' here it is, ' here it is!
- ' Thank '' heavens!
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Where 'is it?
'Take it ''easy!
'Try to re''member.
Oh, 'here it is, 'here it is!
'Thank ''heavens!
'Big, tall ''trees-- Such rhythms cannot be determined by someone who has not seen the context, has not seen that 'tall trees' has already been repeated twice and that the 3rd 'trees' is the end o
'Take it ''easy!
'Try to re''member.
Oh, 'here it is, 'here it is!
'Thank ''heavens!
'Big, tall ''trees-- Such rhythms cannot be determined by someone who has not seen the context, has not seen that 'tall trees' has already been repeated twice and that the 3rd 'trees' is the end o
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Thank you MM.
Is it possible that stress words in these chants many not be the stress words if the same phrases is used in a general conversation? For example,
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Is it possible that stress words in these chants many not be the stress words if the same phrases is used in a general conversation? For example,
Mister MicawberWhere 'is it?I thought in a WH question, one needs to stress the WH word.
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Mister Micawber'Don't 'touch ''mine! 'get your ''own!
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I think Jazz Chants are pretty accurate conversational stress patterns, but you must take them - just like any conversation - in the whole context they present, not just a line or two.
Negative words do take stress intrinsically, but main verbs generally take more.
This is your hat. Don't touch mine.
You can look at my hat. Don't touch mine.
You can t
Negative words do take stress intrinsically, but main verbs generally take more.
This is your hat. Don't touch mine.
You can look at my hat. Don't touch mine.
You can t
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