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Stress in a sentence help please

0 Hello everyone. 02br
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00Any help you can give me with these problems would be just great thanks. 02br
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00which words would be stressed in these sentences and WHY? im not a native speaker and its hard to tell. 02br
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001. He telephoned the police yesterday. 02br
00I think maybe telephoned and police are stressed is this right? if so why? 02br
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002. Can you show me the dimonds? 02br
00I think show and diamonds are stressed is this right if so why? 02br
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003. Paul has gone to the theatre. 02br
00I think gone and theatre are stressed is this right if so why? 02br
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004. Have you heard about David? 02br
00 He`s won $50,000 on the lottery. 02br
00I think heard and David, won $50,000, lottery are stressed is this right if so why? 02br
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005. I`m not doing anything this evening. 02br
00I think not, anything, evening are stressed is this right if so why? 02br
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00thank you for your time. 02br
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00Maria. 0-
  

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0 Your intuition is right. 02br 00Stress the content words (mostly nouns, verbs). Don't stress the structural words.

— CalifJim

  • 0 Your intuition is right.
  • 02br 00Stress the content words (mostly nouns, verbs).
  • Don't stress the structural words.
  • ) 02br 02br 00CJ 0-
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0 Your intuition is right. 02br
00Stress the content words (mostly nouns, verbs). Don't stress the structural words. ("a", "the", "of", auxiliary verbs, etc.) 02br
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