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Content Words (more stress) Function Words (less stress)
Nouns (paper, coffee, Mr. Smith) Prepositions (it, on, for, with)
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 verb “be” (He’s a teacher, She is right., etc.)
Possessive pronouns (Those are hers.)
This/that as pronouns (She wants this.)
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