How to use stress to communicate - a Mini English Lesson

Stressing different words in a sentence can change the meaning of what you say and can help the listener to understand exactly what you want to communicate. Find out more in this Mini English Lesson.

[theculturedkidlanguages]

Very informative lesson! Thank you so much for this!

[carlg]

Of Stress Contrastive Spoken: Herein doth the orator display, with keen divergence, the acts and directives most contrary.

• With Intonation Declining: He doth lay emphasis upon select terms, with a gravity to underscore the oppositions stark.
• By Examples Furnish’d: In divers scenes presented, the concept’s heart is laid bare for all to grasp with clarity.

Upon the scaffold of numerics, insight thus is built:

• The instruction, rich in varied instances (as when one chooseth to voyage by chariot to the mart, contra to treading the path on foot, or in selecting garlic over ginger), doth reveal how stress and melody in speech serve to delineate contrast and magnify the disparate.

[NgọcMai-un]

English Lesson Is Clearly . I Make Black Garlic Last Year.