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Practice ExerciseIdentify which words are content words and should be stressed in the following sentences:
Words in italics are stressed content words while unstressed function words are in lower case.
- They've been learning English for two months.
- My friends have nothing to do this weekend.
- I would have visited in April if I had known Peter was in town.
- Natalie will have been studying for four hours by six o'clock.
- The boys and I will spend the weekend next to the lake fishing for trout.
- Jennifer and Alice had finished the report before it was due last week.
Words in italics are stressed content words while unstressed function words are in lower case.
- They've been learning English for two months.
- My friends have nothing to do this weekend.
- I would have visited in April if i had known Peter was in town.
- Natalie will have been studying for fours hours by six o'clock.
- The boys and i will spend the weekend next to the lake fishing for trout.
- Jennifer and Alice had finished the report before it was due last week.