Stress - Meaning/Word/Sentence/Contrastive/Emphatic/Function

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This video lesson provides a detailed explanation of stress in the English language. Stress is the emphasis placed on a syllable in a word or a word in a sentence. Stress can occur at the word and sentence level performing two major functions which are: distinguishing meaning/grammatical class and emphasizing words for special effect. This video also explains how to determine the syllable that receives stress in a given word. Concepts such as root word, stress shift, and compound words are explained to aid the understanding of stress in English.

Lesson objective includes:
- The meaning of stress in English
- Word stress
- Sentence stress
- Contrastive/Emphatic stress
- Function of stress

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