British English Pronunciation | Stress with SO / SUCH

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Today I'm going to help your English sound more natural by focusing on stress and using
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it to emphasise how we feel. All that is coming right up.
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So why is stress so important? 'This is such a good party''I'm so excited right now!' 'This
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is really good'. Woah! Ok without stress our sentences have no life. So we use stress to
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help us to show or to indicate what we think is the important information in a sentence.
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We also use it to emphasise how we feel about something and that's what we are going to
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focus on today. So we use before adjectives. 'He is so annoying' 'She's so cute' 'Oh my
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God! It's so cold' And we use such in front of a noun. 'He's such a nice guy' 'That's
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such a good idea' 'It was such a bad film'. Ok, can you see there that I'm stressing so
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and such? And they are just emphasising how I feel. It's such a good idea, you know it's
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not just a good idea, I believe in the idea. It's such a good idea. Alright let's put it
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into a conversation. A conversation about Game of Thrones. Did you see Game of Thrones
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last night? No, was it good? ? Oh my God! It was so good. You have to watch it. Ok,
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cool. I will. Yeah, you've got to watch it, it was such a good episode. Now this stress
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pattern is commonly used with so and such. That's used all the time. We can also use
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it with other adverbs so in this sentence 'It really stinks in here' 'Can you actually
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believe what he just said?' 'I am very tired.' Alright so other adverbs there. We've got
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really, we've got actually and we've got very. Alright guys it's time for you to practise.
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Now I'm going to throw up some sentences up here and I want you to say them at home using
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this natural stress pattern. Ok? Are you ready? Here we go.
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Alright guys, I hope you have enjoyed that. I hope you found that useful and I hope that
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your English will now sound more natural with this stress pattern. If you would like more
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videos on pronunciation or stress then let me know in the comments below. Please give
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every Tuesday and every Friday helping you take your English to the next level. Thank
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you so much for hanging out with me guys. This is Tom, the chief dreamer, saying goodbye.
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