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7 Sentence Stress Questions

Find the stressed words in each sentence:

Example: My friend is English. > my FRIEND is ENGLISH

  1. Do you like coffee?
  2. Would you like a coffee?
  3. I think he wants to go.
  4. I don't think so.
  5. London is the capital of Britain.
  6. Have you ever seen this film?
  7. Where can we go?

Answers

We are looking for the neutral or "normal" sentence stress, not contrastive stress that we sometimes use to emphasize certain words in a sentence.

Contributor: Josef Essberger