In this video we are going to learn about one of the 4 types of sentences stress in English: contrastive stress. Without changing the grammar, words or word order, we can change the meaning of a sentence simply by moving the stress from one word to the next. Convenient, right?

We are going to use the following sentence as our example:

She doesn’t think this is a good idea.

After that we are going to discuss, contrastive stress on determiners (this, these, that, those), contrastive stress in question-answer statements and single statements by one speaker.