Penekanan kata merupakan salah satu elemen yang sangat penting untuk meningkatkan kualitas pengucapan Bahasa Inggris kita. Bahasa yang kita gunakan juga akan semakin indah dan enak untuk didengar. Ada beberapa jenis dari Penenakan Kata (Word Stress) dalam Bahasa Inggris, yaitu:
- Tonic Stress
- He's waiting
- He's waiting / for his friend
- He's waiting / for his friend / at the station.
- Emphatic Stress
Contoh:
- That was a difficult test. - Pernyataan standart
- That was a difficult test. - Menekankan betapa sulitnya test itu.
- extremely
- terribly
- completely
- utterly
- especially
- etc.
- Contrastive Stress
Contoh:
- I think I prefer this color.
- Do you want these or those curtains?
- He came to the party yesterday. (Bukan orang lain)
- He walked to the party yesterday. (Dia berjalan kaki, bukan naik taxi, dll)
- He came to the party yesterday. (Dia datang ke pesta itu, bukan meeting, konser atau yang lainnya)
- He came to the party yesterday. (Kemarin, bukan hari ini, lusa, minggu yang lalu atau waktu lainnya)
- New Information Stress
Contoh:
- Where are you from? - I come from Seattle, in the USA.
- What do you want to do? - I want to go bowling.
- When does class begin? - The class begins at nine o'clock.
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