Sentence examples similar to stresses English from inspiring English sources

Dactyl, metrical foot consisting of one long (classical verse) or stressed (English verse) syllable followed by two short, or unstressed, syllables.

But in South Korea, where anti-American sentiments have been on the rise in recent years, English Village goes out of its way to avoid connections with US symbols, stressing English as a "global language" separ*ate from the politics of one nation.

If we had sex, it wouldn't be legal, because we're already practically conjoined twins!" Cameron Diaz - her beaming, hyperactive face almost entirely devoid of ordinary human emotion - plays Amanda, a movie executive who has come to England on a cute "house swap" holiday with a stressed English journalist called Iris (Kate Winslet).

A great deal of the literature on this topic stresses that English language proficiency is vital to the success of international students in American higher education because both the academic and social adjustment of international students require a high level of English language skills (Andrade 2006; Yeh and Inose 2003; Sawir 2005).

This official notice stressed the English language examinations should be taken for employees who work in government or government-related working units.

As a result, metre in Chinese prosody is not concerned with the combination of syllabic stresses, as in English, but with those of syllabic tones, which produce a different but equally pleasing cadence.

Barry's word-setting frequently rides roughshod over the natural rhythmic stresses of the English language in a way that would fail him a music theory paper, but here emphasises the artificial thought-processes of Wilde's characters, as well as his own mannered treatment of them.

The annual report by Hope Not Hate, which has spent a decade monitoring far-right groups such as the British National party and English Defence League, stresses that Ukip is not itself of the far right.

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says there is emphasis on him to play Harry Kane because he is English, but stresses he will not bow to pressure.

Those who identified as Cornish and English stressed the primacy of their Cornishness and a capacity to distance themselves from their Englishness.

An exception is the spondee, which consists of two stressed syllables; in English verse, this is usually two monosyllables, such as the phrase "He who".