How To Answer Questions On Emphatic Stress In Use Of English Exams
How To Answer Questions On Emphatic Stress In Use Of English Exams
It is very rare to see a Secondary School English exams without questions on Emphatic Stress. WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or JAMB makes sure that their objective test questions on Use of English don’t get to candidates without the inclusion of questions from Emphatic Stress. That is why students sitting for either of these exams must have a knowledge of this topic.
Questions on Emphatic Stress are the simplest but students still fail them. This is because they are yet to have an understanding of the topic (Emphatic Stress) hence the need for this tutorial.
According to plant city rehabs, Emphatic stress is a stress placed on a particular word in a phrase or clause for clarity or emphasis. In WAEC’s, NECO’s, NABTEB’s and JAMB’s Use of English exam, the word that is emphasised or the word that carries the emphatic stress is usually capitalised.
For example:
John’s girlfriend is always STUNNING.
In the example above, “stunning” carries the emphatic stress.
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How Does WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or JAMB Set Their Questions on Emphatic Stress?
Questions on emphatic stress by these examination bodies take the same format. For instance, you might be asked to choose the option that carries the emphatic stress in the question below.
John’s girlfriend is always STUNNING.
A. Is Emeka’s wife always stunning?
B. Is John’s sister always stunning?
C. Is John’s wife always beautiful?
D. Is John’s wife occasionally stunning?
How Do I Know the Correct Option in the Options Above?
It is very simple. Since the word that has the emphatic stress is “stunning”, the option that does not have “stunning” becomes the correct answer. In the question above, the emphasis is on “stunning”, so the answer will be an option without “stunning”. Therefore, the answer is C.
If the emphasis was on “Tammy’s”, then the answer would have been A. If the emphasis was on “wife”, the answer would have been B. If the emphasis was on “always”, the answer would have been D.
Things to Note while Choosing Your Answer.
In order to choose your answers correctly, it is very important you take note of the following:
1. Take note of the word that is emphasised in the question. The word that is emphasised is usually capitalised.
2. When choosing your answer, choose the option that does not have the capitalised word. All the options except one carry the capitalised word in the question. The one without the capitalised word is the correct option.
3. You are good to go.
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I really appreciate this answers, they are helpful.
But I want to know one more thing, that is the rules guiding emphatic stress in English language, so as to know when to stress a particular part of a word. Like we have up to 4 to 5 rules guiding it, but I have forgotten them cos I lost my textbook and I have no other way to get them back. Can you guys help 🙏 me out! The rules looks like this 👇👇
1, When the word ends with “ion”, then stress so so so part of the word. ETC
Pls guys I want to recover them back☝️☝️, remember that was an example of what the rules looks like.
Thanks for your help ❣️