ACCENTS IN ENGLISH
Accents in English reflect factors like nationality, social background, age, and culture. Learn about the rhythm of speech, distinguishing content and function words. Test your knowledge with exercises on word classification.
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ACCENTS IN ENGLISH Accentis the part of dialect concerning local pronunciation. Secondary English speakers tend to carry over the intonation and phonetics of their mother tongue in English speech. It Depends on: Nationality Social Economic background Age Ethnicity Culture influence
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RYTHMN IN ENGLISH Rhythm is the sense of movement in speech, which is marked by stress, timing and quantity of syllables. Words that have the most stress in English are called content words. Function words are those words that are weaker and shorter. They include auxiliary verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners, and possessive adjectives. Content words are usually the nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns https://youtu.be/SBfLolmFhGI
Exercise Decide which words are function and content words in the following sentences. 1. John wants to be an actor, so he wants to live in Hollywood. 2. Mary made an appointment with the dentist on Monday. 3. What did you do yesterday? 4.You are not going to that place, are you? 5.Most people are fully aware that motorcycles can be dangerous to ride.
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