Stress
Tonic Stress
I'm GOing.
I'm going to LOndon.
I'm going to London for a HOliday.
Emphatic Stress
i. It was very BOring.
ii. It was VEry boring.
i. You don't have to talk so LOUDly.
ii. You DON'T HAVE to talk so loudly.
indeed utterly absolute terrific
tremendous awfully terribly great
grand really definitely truly
literally extremely surely completely
harely entirely very quite
too enough pretty far
especially alone only own-self
1. A friend in need is a friend INDEED.
2. You're ABSOLUTEly right.
3. He'll DEFINITEly do that for you.
4. It was TERRIFIC!
5. LITERALly speaking, China is an up and coming country.
6. I feel EXTREMEly sorry.
7. She is VERY good at handwriting.
1. Do you like this one or THAT one?
2. I like THIS one.
3. I like THESE shoes better than THOSE shoes.
4. I like CHICKEN more than beef.
5. I prefer READING to watching TV.
SHE read a novel to me last night.
She READ a novel to me last night.
She read a NOVEL to me last night.
She read a novel to ME last night.
She read a novel to me LAST NIGHT.
What's your NAME?
My name's GEORGE.
Where are you FROM?
I'm from WALES.
Where do you LIVE?
I live in HAIDIAN.
When does the school term END?
It ends in MAY.
What do you DO?
I'm a STUdent.
HOW do you go to work?
I go to work by BUS.
adv. 绝对地,完全地;独立地