Emphatic stress

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Emphatic (contrastive) stress in sentences, how to answer the UTME emphatic-stress question, and the basic intonation patterns of statements, questions, commands, lists and question tags.

In these notes
  1. Sentence stress
  2. The UTME question
  3. Method
  4. Intonation
  5. Question tags and choices

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  1. Comprehension and Summary
    1. Comprehension passages
    2. Cloze test
    3. Reading text
    4. Summary
    5. Figures of speech
  2. Lexis and Structure
    1. Synonyms
    2. Antonyms
    3. Homonyms
    4. Clause and sentence patterns
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    10. Prepositions and phrasal verbs
    11. Registers and specialist vocabulary
  3. Oral Forms
    1. Vowels
    2. Consonants
    3. Rhymes
    4. Word stress
    5. Emphatic stress
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