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美语口语发音训练 第一册08

2010-08-14来源:和谐英语
Statement Intonation with Pronouns

When you replace the nouns with pronouns (i.e., old information), stress the verb.

They eat them

As we have seen, nouns are new information; pronouns are old information. In a nutshell,

these are the two basic intonation patterns:

Dogs eat bones.

They eat them.