This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phonetics > Sentence Stress Patterns – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sentence Stress Patterns Quiz 2 (6 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. THEIR children speak better French than English. A) Do their husbands speak better French than English?. B) What language do their children speak better than English?. C) Do their children speak better French than English?. D) Whose children speak better French than English?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whose children speak better French than English?. 2. Sentence stress can help you be understood more easily? A) True. B) False. C) I am crazy. D) I don't know. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. What is a content word? A) Words used to annoy people. B) Words used for fun. C) Words used for grammatical purpose. D) Words used to represent key or important information. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Words used to represent key or important information. 4. When speaking English, we try to create a rhythm in which the time between stressed words is ..... A) The same. B) Different. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The same. 5. I didn't say he stole the money. A) The speaker is suggesting that someone else stole the money, not the man identified in the sentence. B) The speaker wanted to suggest that the man stole the money. But she did not want to directly say it. C) The speaker is suggesting that she is talking about some other money, not the specific money being discussed. D) The speaker is trying to say is, "Maybe he just borrowed the money. Maybe he didn't steal it.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker wanted to suggest that the man stole the money. But she did not want to directly say it. 6. Which of the following are NOT content words? A) Conjunctions. B) Adverbs. C) Adjectives. D) Nouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conjunctions. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesSentence Stress Patterns Quiz 1Assimilation In Speech QuizConnected Speech QuizConsonant Clusters Pronunciation QuizConsonant Clusters QuizContrastive Stress QuizDiphthongs QuizElision In Speech Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books