mywiki:english:sentence_stress
| Content Words (more stress) | Function Words (less stress) |
| Nouns (paper, coffee, Mr. Smith) | Prepositions (it, on, for, with, at, above) |
| Main Verbs (talk, watched, need, find) | Determiners (a, the, some) |
| Adjectives (tall, blue, enchanting) | Helping verbs (I’m going to leave, She has seen it etc.) |
| Wh-words (why, what, how, etc.) | Conjunctions (for, and, but, yet, etc.) |
| Adverbs (slowly, nervously now, always) | Most pronouns (she, it, they, them, him, etc.) |
| Negation words (no, not, isn’t, won’t) | The auxiliary verb “be/can/wll/have to/must” |
| Possessive pronouns (Those are hers/mine/yours/theirs.) | |
| This/that as pronouns (She wants this.) | Demonstratives this/that/those/these: this is a book |
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