1. In what way are tie words in a sentence made prominent?
2. How is the promnence of words realized?
3. What is the mail function of sentence-stress?
4. Which is the mot prominent word in a sentence?
5. Tell the different between normal and logical stresses.
6. Why is the wordi/ stressed in the sentence: 'If you stay you'll
meet him.'?
What do we callthis kind of sentence-stress?
7. Why is the perscfial pronoun / stressed in the reply:
'Who has don; this? — I have.'?
What do we all this type of sentence-stress?
8. Which words an the communicative centres of the following
sentences:
The Vgirl has 'boken the xcup.
The "* girl has Jroken the cup.
Name the intoiation means which make the last stressed
words stand out
9. Translate the folowing sentence into Russian: How badly he
had said it. Yet le HAD said it.
What is the attiude of the speaker? What are the means to convey the same idea in English and in Russian?
10. Where would you use logical stress in these sentences:
I'm not writing t> your friend. Nick is my friend as well.
What does logical stress express here?
11. What kind of atttude is expressed in the reply of the second speaker?
'Speak out!' sail Martin, 'and speak the truth.' 'I fear this IS the truth.'
12. Give examples where the shifting of sentence-stress changes the meaning of the sentence. Use them in situations.
13. Transcribe, mark stresses and tunes and read the sentence:
'They aren't ready, are they?' Give examples where link verbs are used in their strong forms.
14. Transcribe, mark stresses and tunes and read the sentence: 'Who will meet him at the airport?' Give examples where form-words are used in their weak forms.
15. Shift the communicative centre in the following sentence: *I wish you'd stay for a few days.' Use the phrases in your own situations.
16. Transcribe and intone the following sentence: 'I'd love to have a chat with you!' Use emphatic stress in it. Then read it.
17. Transcribe and intone the following situation: 'Is he really ill?' — 'It seems to him he is ill.' Read it and make it expressive enough. What intonation means have you used?
18. Why did the author italicize the words you and / in the situa-
tion: 'You don't live here?' — 'No,' I said, '/ don't. You wouldn't if I did.' (Jerome K. Jerome. "Three Men in a Boat")
19. Give examples where logical stress underlines elements of contrast.
20. 'The lady is young and pretty.' — 'She is young, but I wouldn't call her pretty.' What is the attitude of the speaker in the second sentence in which the verb is takes the logical stress?