Rules of Sentence Stress

Learn about which words to stress in your sentences.  Remember to pronounce them slowly and clearly. 

From EnglishClub.com

Which words should I stress?

Contrastive Stress Quiz 1

One word is stressed more than any other in each sentence. Which word?

From Cambridge Interchange Arcade.

Contrastive Stress Quiz 2

Plato Quiz

Choose the tonic (most stressed) syllable. Use the two buttons to move left and right through the syllables.

Jennifer ESL

Excellent lessons on sentence stress.

Thought Groups - Lesson 7a

Thought Groups - Lesson 7b

Sentence Stress - Lesson 8a

Sentence Stress - Lesson 8b

Sentence Stress - Lesson 8c

Rhythm Through Rhyme - Lesson 3a

Rhythm Through Rhyme - Lesson 3b

BBC - Features of Pronunciation - Schwa

Learn about the most common vowel sound in English, found in most unstressed syllables.

Schwa Exercise - Limerick

Find all the examples of 'schwa' in the poem.

Alternate exercise - click on the stressed words

More limericks