EnglishClub Sentence Stress
EnglishClub Sentence Stress introduces sentence stress as the music and beat of spoken English, on EnglishClub, a long-running free site for English learners. It separates content words from structure words, shows with a telegram message that the content words alone carry the sense, and explains why the time between stressed words stays the same. Rules and a quiz follow.
100% Free (unlimited): Open to anyone with no account and no payment. The explanation, the telegram example, the timing diagram, the sentence stress rules page and the quiz that follows it are all free to use.
How It Helps Your Business English
The page defines sentence stress as accent on certain words within a sentence, in the way word stress is accent on one syllable. It separates content words, which carry the sense, from structure words, which carry the grammar, and builds a four-word telegram up into a full sentence to show that the meaning holds. A short section explains the constant beat.
Read the telegram message first and check that you can follow it with only four words, because that is the whole point of the page in one example. Then say the longer versions aloud, keeping the four key words at the same spacing and squeezing the small words between them. Move on to the rules page and the quiz when the beat feels steady.
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