Pronounciation. Intonation and Sentence Rhythm. Sentence Rhythm. Exercise 2.

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           Sentence Rhythm.
 Rhythm is timing patterns among syllables.      
 There are basically two types of sentence rhythm in languages:
 "stress-timed rhythm" and "syllables-timed rhythm."

  • Look at the following pictures, the left one represents the stress-timed rhythm, with an alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables (adults represent stressed syllables and kids represent unstressed ones), and  the right one represents the syllable-timed rhythm, with nearly equal weight and time in all syllables (identical soldiers represent the same length and weight that each syllable has).

The Emphasis Pattern in English
Basically words can be divided into two categories: content words and structure words. Content words are those which carry the basic meaning of a sentence, such as nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs. Structure words, also called function words, show grammatical relationship, such as pronouns and prepositions, conjunctions, determiners.
Fill the gaps according to the proper rhythm.

Fill the gaps according to the proper rhythm.

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
1. If a speak Spanish I'm using a rhythm.
2. If I speak German I'm using a rhythm.
3. If I speak Korean I'm using a rhythm.
4. If I speak Italian I'm using a rhythm.
5. If I speak Arabic I'm using a rhythm.
6. If I speak Dutch I'm using a rhythm.
7. If I speak Cantonese I'm using a rhythm.
8. If I speak Finnish I'm using a rhythm.
9. If I speak Swedish I'm using a rhythm.
10. If I speak Russian I'm using a rhythm.

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