1. Mark sentence-stresses and underline all the content words in the sentence: 'I sent them a photo of the children.' What parts of speech are content words?
2. Mark sentence-stresses and underline all the form-words in the sentence: 'They all went for a walk in the park.' What parts of speech are form-words ?
3. Are the personal and possessive pronouns generally stressed in connected speech?
4. Transcribe the following sentence, mark the stresses and tunes. Read it, make it sound rhythmically correct: 'He told his son to wait for him.'
5. Are the auxiliary and modal verbs generally stressed in connected speech?
G. Try to remember in what positions, the auxiliary and modal
verbs are generally stressed in a sentence. 7. Transcribe the following sentence, mark the stresses and
tunes. Read it: 'What do you generally do in the evening?'
Mind that the verb to do is used here first as an auxiliary, then
as a content verb.
8. Pronounce the correct forms of the verb can in the phrase? 'I can do it as well.' And now in: 'Can you write it yourself?' Give other examples where auxiliary and modal verbs have their strong forms.
9. In what positions are prepositions generally stressed in a sen-
tence?
10. Transcribe, mark the stresses and tunes and read the sentence: 'Who are you waiting for?' Which form of the preposition for have you used? Give other examples where prepositions have their strong forms.
11. Which form-words have no weak forms?
12. Give examples of the word that as a demonstrative pronoun and as a conjunction.
13. Transcribe, mark the stresses and tunes and read the sentence: 'He isn't away, is he?' Give examples where link-verbs have their strong forms.
14. Transcribe, mark the stresses and tunes and read the sentenc-
es: 'We have an elder brother.' 'He has left for the Urals at present.' How have you transcribed the verb have in the first sentence, and has in the second?