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Sentence Stress We want to go.
We WANT to GO.
We want to go to work.
We WANT to GO to WORK.
We don¶t want to go to work.
We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK.
We don¶t want to go to work at night.
We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK atNIGHT.
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Sentence Stress General rules
content words are stressed
structure words are unstressed
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Sentence StressFunction words Example
Pronouns I, she, you
Preposition At, on, for
Articles A, an, the
Conjunction And, but
Auxiliary verb Do, be, can
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Sentence Stress SELL CAR GONE FRANCE?
SELL my CAR I¶ve GONE FRANCE?
Will you SELL my CAR because I¶ve
GONE to FRANCE?
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Sentence Stress General rules
content words are stressed
structure words are unstressed the time between stressed words is
always the same
1 2 3 4
1 and 2 and 3 and 4
1 and a2 and a 3 and a 4
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You should KNOW that
SENtence and WORDSTRESS are VERy
imPORtant !!!
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Paragraph &
Paragraph Unity
A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a
single topic Elements of a Good Paragraph
Unity
Development
Coherence
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Paragraph &
Paragraph Unity
My department has just taken in one
new staff . He is a young and good
looking man. His name is Peter. Peter is a very popular name. I have a cousin
whose name is Peter too. My cousin is
a pilot. Pilot is a well-paid job. I wish I
were a pilot.
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As I enter my aunt and uncle¶s house, I go intoa small living room with a fireplace whichalmost always is vacant. I also regularly findmy cousins playing computer games, watching
MTV, or viewing movies in the family room. Akitchen and large formal dining room areadjacent to the family room. Every night thefamily eats dinner at the round wooden kitchentable where I usually notice a lingering scent of
vanilla candles. Like the living room, the diningroom rarely is used. A small hallway connectsthe dining room to a laundry room and one cargarage where I occasionally notice my auntloading laundry into the washer or dryer.
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Sample The way we use banks is currently changing. This is
partly because of the introduction of new technology
in the last ten years. The personal computer and the
internet, for instance,allow customers to view theiraccounts at home and perform operations such as
moving money between accounts. At the same time
banks are being reorganised in ways that affect both
customers and staff. In the past five years over 3,000
bank branches have closed in Britain. The banks have
discovered that staffing call centres is cheaper than
running a branch network.
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Paragraph &
Paragraph Unity
How to increase paragraph unity
A topic sentence is a sentence that indicates in ageneral way what idea or thesis the paragraph is
going to deal with. Topic sentences can occur anywhere in the paragraph
Not all paragraphs have clear-cut topic sentences
Topic sentences often have controlling ideas (i.e.words or phrases that need further explanation)
Avoid writing topic sentences that are too broad; or
too narrow
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