Content words and grammatical words and their role in a sentence.

Content Words and Grammatical Words: As said before, those words are stressed that are important for its meaning.

For example, in a sentence 'I love you' , the speaker would stress the word 'I' if he meant that he and none else loves 'you'. Similarly he would stress the word 'you' if he meant that he loves 'you' only and none else.

I and none else is loved)

/l/love you—CI' and none else loves 'you')

Besides, there are also instances, when the meaning doesn 't require any word to be stressed in utterance. In such cases content words would be stressed while the grammatical words would be left unstressed.

Content words—Nouns, main verbs, adjectives, adverbs, question words and demonstratives (they are important— for meaning)

Grammatical words—Articles, pronouns, prepositions auxiliary verbs and conjunctions.

(Their main function is to put the sentence in the correct grammatical structures.)

For example: (Content words are stressed and marked with vertical bar ( O))

1.I love my, OfriendsO.

2. I Olove to Olive in Kolkata.

3. There are Ofive Ogirls and Oten Oboys in our Oclass.

4. My Oson is a Ogood Odoctor.

5. I Oate some Orice (and chapatis) Obread.

6. We have a Owllite Odog in our Ohouse.

7. OPIease Ogive me a Odozen Obananas.

In polysyllabic content words, only that syllable is stressed in it which we stress when we say the word by itself.

For example,

I. The Otea was Ogo•cxi.

2. It was a oexcellent a ochievement.

3. I've committed a misotake.

4. Tooday has been deoclared Oholiday.

5. I will onever foroget you.

6. I ovisited OAgra last omonth.

7. Do you need any asosistance?

8. I have an imoportant exami onation tomorrow.

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