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britdam007

britdam007

India

1) He was a short, dynamic man who never stopped moving.


2) I met a very attractive girl who seemed to like me and we began to have dinners together.


I’d like to know that while reading out both the senteces aloud if I need to pause after or before the relative pronoun “who”?



3) The problem was that she could see me only every other evening.


For the above mentioned sentence, while reading out loud should the pause be before or after that?


Also I’d like to know that in the phrase “only every other evening” should I stress the adverb “only” and the adjective “other”? What about the adjective “every” and the noun “evening” then? I’m confused. Please help me out?



Best regards,


Abhishek



04:16 PM Feb 07 2014 |

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Teacher AmySuper Member!

United States

When you are using sentences with relative pronouns (who, that, etc.), the pause comes before the relative pronoun, never between the relative pronoun and its corresponding verb.


Only is an adverb. Similar to how we place stress on the first adjective in a group of 2+ adjectives, an adverb in this string of modifiers also follows the rules. Because only has the first position in this description, it is stressed. When there are 3 or more adverbs or adjectives preceding a noun, the last modifier before the noun (in this case other) will also be stressed.


Best,


Amy

09:55 PM Feb 10 2014 |

britdam007

britdam007

India

So you mean the noun “evening” is not stressed at all?


 I met a very attractive girl who seemed to like me and we began to have dinners together.


In the above sentence, for the phrase “we began to have dinners together” dinners or together will be stressed?



Best regards,


Abhshek

05:11 PM Feb 11 2014 |

britdam007

britdam007

India

So be it a string of adverbs and adjectives followed by a noun the first adjective/adverb will be stressed and the next one will not be stressed and so on.


If I assume STRESS=1 and NO STRESS=0; then should it follow a 101010…. pattern? And is the noun never stressed? If the string follows a 101 pattern then I think the noun has to be stressed?  For example  the sentence “He is an intelligent, brave, man”; according to you if I stress the 1st adjective which is intelligent here then of course I have to leave out the adjective brave and then again stress the noun man. Do you agree with me? Please advise?



Best regards,


Abhishek


05:24 PM Feb 11 2014 |

Teacher AmySuper Member!

United States

“Dinners” would be stressed.


The 101 stress rule does not work universally. Every sentence has variables that affect where the stress will be placed. The speaker’s emphasis also plays a huge part. Even if a sentence would normally be spoken in one way, the speaker could have a different intended meaning and pronounce the words in a particular way (stressing abnormal words) to communicate that meaning.


In the second sentence, I do agree with stressing “intelligent” and “man.”


Best,


Amy

01:17 AM Feb 14 2014 |