Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4 - Big issues for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Mark the main stress, or stresses, in each sentence.

Answer

  1. It was shocking what happened to her.
  2. It just seems a bit excessive.
  3. Mind you, it was a lot of money.
  4. It makes you wonder what’s gone wrong with the world.
  5. It was such typical double standards!
  6. That’s good news for a change!
  7. I don’t know how they manage.
  8. At least they’re doing something about it at last!
  9. You can’t have everything in life, can you?
  10. It’s a bit of a worry.
  11. It’s lucky it was caught on film.
  12. That kind of thing shouldn’t be tolerated.