Sentence stress is the relative degree of force given to __________ in a sentence.
A. certain letters
B. certain ideas
C. certain words
D. certain meaning
In a sentence, ____________, namely, nouns, notional verbs, adjectives, adverbs, numerals, interjections, demonstratives, interrogative pronouns and so on, are usually stressed as they carry the meaning or sense.
A. content words or information words
B. function words
C. new words
D. old words
Generally speaking, there are three types of sentence stress in connected speech. They are __________.
A. sense stress or notional stress
B. logical stress or contrastive stress
C. emotional stress
D. functional stress