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Belly Posted 18 years ago
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0Len and Joe eat some01b00 pizza02b02br
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00Question: 1) Why pizza but not pizza01b00s02b00 here?02br
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002) My teacher told me to stress on 01b00Joe02b00, but I did stress on01b00 Len02b00 and01b00 pizza02b00 because this sentence presents new information/. Could you help me out?0-
  

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0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00Len and Joe eat some01b 00 pizza02b 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Question: 1) Why pizza but not pizza01b 00s02b 00 here? 02font 00The word is being used ina general, no-count way. 02br 02br 01font 002) My teacher told me to stress on 01b 00Joe02b 00, but I did stress on01b 00 Len02b 00 and01b 00 pizza02b 00 because this sentence presents new information/.

— Clive

  • 0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00Len and Joe eat some01b 00 pizza02b 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Question: 1) Why pizza but not pizza01b 00s02b 00 here?
  • 02font 00The word is being used ina general, no-count way.
  • 02br 02br 01font 002) My teacher told me to stress on 01b 00Joe02b 00, but I did stress on01b 00 Len02b 00 and01b 00 pizza02b 00 because this sentence presents new information/.
  • 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00Len and Joe eat some01b00 pizza02b02font02br
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01font00Question: 1) Why pizza but not pizza01b00s02b00 here? 02font00The word is being used ina general, no-count way. eg Do you like pizza?02br
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0Maybe they shared a pizza and only consumed half of it. Here it would be the same as eating some ice cream. If it's a single serving type of ice cream, like a cone or a bar, you could say they ate some ice creams. (countable vs uncountable)02br
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00I see no reason not to stress 01i01u00Len02u02i00, 01u01i00Joe02
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01cite10Belly12cite10Len and Joe eat some11b10 pizza12b12br
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10Question: 1) Why pizza but not pizza11b10s12b10 here?12br
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102) My teacher told me to stress on 11b10Joe12b10, but I did stress on11b10 Len12b10 an
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1i00Joe02i00 gets phrase-final stress. The word 01i00Joe02i00 completes the noun phrase that forms the subject of the sentence.02br
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00Had it been 01i00Joe and Len ate some pizza02i00, 01i00Len02i00 would have got the phrase-final stress.02br
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0Hi Kooyeen, I was hoping you'd get in on this.02br
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00I thought I had a grasp of what everyone was saying, but now I'm totally confused. We've talked about stressing three words in the initial sentence, J, L, & P. Somebody says stress L. Somebody says no, stress J. Somebody says L & P. I honestly can't tell if when you guys say, "stress J" you mean "stress only J.
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0Well, I didn't consider the stress on "pizza", but it's stressed, yes. I was only considering the first part, "Joe and Lenny", or whatever they were called. And I don't know why, but I'd stress "Lenny", the second name, if I were trying to say that sentence in a neutral way, without adding anything after it, no context whatsoever. But as soon as I imagine a context and other clauses or sentence
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