Microsoft Word Glossary March 2011 doc

 
Word stress is the pronunciation of a syllable with more force or emphasis than the surrounding syllables 
which are said to be unstressed, e.g. umbrella / √m«brelW /. 
 
Strong form 
In connected speech many words are not pronounced fully. For example, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, pronouns and 
conjunctions are usually not pronounced fully and are not stressed. When these words (weak forms) are pronounced 
fully and are stressed to emphasise a point they become strong forms, e.g. I don’t speak Italian but I can /
kæn/ 
speak a little Spanish in an emergency. See weak form. 

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Structural approach 
A way of teaching which uses a syllabus based on grammatical structures. The order in which the language is 
presented is usually based on how difficult it is thought to be. 
 
► Style 
A characteristic way of conveying information e.g. humorous, journalistic, casual, business-like. 
 
Subject 
This is the noun or phrase that goes before the verb to show who is doing the action in an active sentence,
e.g. John plays tennis every Saturday, or who or what the action is done to in a passive sentence, e.g. The food was 
cooked yesterday. See object. 
 
Subjective test: see test. 
 
Subject-verb agreement 
When the form of the verb matches the person doing the action of the verb, e.g. I walk, he walks. If a learner writes
I walks, then it is wrong because there is no subject-verb agreement.