500 Words: Word Stress
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 853
Questions and Answers
- 1.In the sentence, "My friend bought some groceries," the commonly stressed words are "friend" and "groceries."
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.In the sentence, "He was listening to her attentively" both "he" and "her" will commonly be stressed.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.In the sentence "The tree fell on the house," "fell" is commonly stressed.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4."John has a new motorcycle. He rides it all the time. Every day, John rides to work." In the third sentence, "every" will be commonly stressed.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.You can reduce small words, for instance "to" becomes "t'."
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True
- B.
False
- 6.It is necessary to de-stress small words so that the stressed words can stand out.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Adjectives or adverbs may be stressed before nouns if they are important to the meaning of the speaker.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.You can reduce the "H" in "her" when saying "What's 'r name?"
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True
- B.
False
- 9."And" commonly reduces to "an."
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True
- B.
False
- 10.You can practice good stress by pausing before or after the stressed word.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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