Sentence Stress and Intonation in English (The Complete Guide)

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Is it ok to learn American pronunciation from Elsa, while learning British pronunciation from Emma?

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Does it help with the algorithm?

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@@user-iy5ut3jx7k I'm no expert but my understanding is that it does, along with liking and watching the whole video. As far as I know, these things tell the algorithm that people are enjoying and engaging with the video and so it pushes it out to a wider audience.

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[@angel_sword3409]

Thank you so much. My native language is a syllable timed language and the word stress is always on the first syllable. So I tend to sound robotic when speaking English. Your explanation is brilliant. I like that you also compare the right and a wrong sentence stress. It helps me a lot to realize what I usually do wrong.

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Your lessons are first class. True. The surprising thing is that you present basic matters which are valuable at all levels of English. Those details are often omitted at the beginning then mistakes and bad habits stay in student's mind for "happily ever after". Thank you Emma.

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Your talent explaining how to stress words in a sentence is amazing, it is easy to remember and the visual effect is fantastic, great idea. It looks very simple to me but it is the basic steps the more important ones. I am always looking for lessons about how to improve the pronunciation with the imitation and intonation as part of it. Please continue making more lesson on this particular topic, it is very useful, and you have a great talent to make it easy to understand it. Thanks

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Hi - I teach English pronunciation (and also have a PhD in Linguistics). I just shared this with one of my students - it's excellent, in terms of both content and presentation. Highly recommended

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Thank you :))

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Your guiding is splendid! I have never known how to put my intonation before. It's so kind of you!💖

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Good introductory overview of an essential component of spoken English! Intonation is the heartbeat of the language. Plus, it's so much fun!

[@santvi]

Hi ma'am! Why in "Take a left at the light" the word "take" is not stressed? It's a verb, so a content word, isn't it? Thank you!

[@DawnPeacock]

@@santvi Hi Santi! This is an introductory overview of sentence level stress. It is really common in these kinds of presentations to hear that "content words are stressed." This is true...but only partly true. Sentence stress is complex, and it's hard to dig deep into it in a 14-minute video. Also, I think a lot of the time people only present the most basic information because they think that's all their audience is ready for. But I really don't like to start with the usual division of words into "content words" and "focus words" because I think it gives a false impression and obscures a more important truth: 1. There is a hierarchy among content words, and nouns trump verbs under normal conditions. 2. There is ONE word in each chunk of language that gets the MOST stress, and to me that is more important--and also easier--to identify than trying to look for all the content words and stress them. If you stress all the content words, your speech sounds unnatural and you are missing one of the most important facts about English stress: We always put a kind of spotlight on ONE WORD per chunk of language. Finding and stressing that word is the most important thing you can do in terms of sentence-level stress.

[@santvi]

@@DawnPeacock Thank you very much! :-)

[@DawnPeacock]

@@santvi Anything for you Santi xoxo

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Hi Emma, I'm a newcomer to your channel and I've got say what a lesson ! I've probably seen dozens stress break down videos but not a single one has come even close to be as to the point and as plain as yours. Great job!

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Love the way you explain the sentence stress and intonation.

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I suggest ELSA, the app mentioned in this video. Download it for free using the link in the description!

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Thanks Emma for this brilliant video lesson. I wonder if a modal verb is a function word or a content word. That is because in the presentation modal verbs were shown in both categories.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

model verbs are function words (so often weak), but if they are NEGATIVE then are they stressed :)

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This is a fantastic lesson, Emma. I've heard native speakers say something along the lines of 'I know little of you' with a stress on the preposition OF. This seems to break the rule. When do you think this happens?

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

not sure, I'd personally unstress it.

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@@Pronunciationwithemma what would you stress instead in that sentence? Little?

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[@Pronunciationwithemma]

I'll start posting again soon. Podcast is already back up though, new episode this Friday! :)