Cover of the textbook Wider World 3 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Vocabulary in action 2 for the textbook Wider World 3 - Student's Book with authors Carolyn Barraclough and Suzanne Gaynor from Pearson Education

Question

Listen and underline the stress in the sentences below. Where does the stress fall when there is just an adjective, and where does it fall when there is an adverb with the adjective?

Answer

  • It was freezing in the park.
  • It was absolutely freezing in the park.

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  • When there is no adverb, the stress falls on the adjective.
  • When there is an adverb + adjective combination, the stress falls on the adverb.