"word" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In Manx, this applies to stressed monosyllabic words (i.e. words one syllable long).
- To him, the announcer's speech conveyed a hidden message, told by those stressed words: "If anyone leaves, capture him.
- Liaison is often optional, and there is hardly any liaison on stressed words within a sentence.
- This is probably because in stressed words, short vowels only appear before double or geminated/long consonants.
- Alliterative verse, where many of the stressed words in each line start with the same sound, was often used in the local poetry of that time.
- He hung up the receiver and repeated the stressed words slowly and softly to himself: "Watch - man - in - next - room."
- Unstressed words form stress units with preceding stressed words.
- There were no more stressed words.
- In the following examples, the stressed words are indicated with capital letters (also in red font):
- This is an enclitic particle, which often attaches to the first stressed word in the clause, rather than following the verb.
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