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contrastive stress

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  • like, "I preSENT my PREsent to you"?

    April 14, 2010

  • your information is not clear enough to understand

    March 29, 2011

  • preSENT, with the emphasis as shown by the capital letters, has a verbal meaning. PREsent, with a different (i.e. contrasting) stress/emphasis, is a noun.

    March 30, 2011