Stressed grammatical words

Question 1

Auxiliaries are unstressed except: 5

Answer 1

• Contracted negative forms
• MUST and CAN as epistemic modals
• Semi-modals HAVE TO, USED TO
• Question tags
• Emphatic forms

Question 2

Demonstratives

Answer 2

THIS, THAT, THOSE = I ‘didn’t ‘know ‘that

Question 3

Interrogatives

Answer 3

‘Who said ‘that?

Question 4

Quantifiers

Answer 4

MOST, MANY, ALL, MORE…
But not SOME and ANY: weak when QNT
x- ‘Would you ‘like some milk = shva
x- I’ve al’ready ‘got ‘some = chevron