Dear Friends

Sentence Stress is golden key number two for speaking
and understanding English. With Sentence Stress, some
*words* in a sentence are "stressed" (loud) and other
words are weak (quiet). Look at the following sentence:

We want to go.

Do we say every word with the same stress or force? No!
We make the important words *big* and the unimportant
words small. What are the important words in this
sentence? Yes, you're right: WANT and GO.

We WANT to GO.

We WANT to GO to WORK.

We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK.

We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK at NIGHT.

madhur Agarwal

Replying to [Madhur_Agarwal]: It is a Good tip.

Replying to [Ganapathie]:

Thanks

Replying to [Madhur_Agarwal]:
I learn it! Thanks very much !

Replying to [Madhur_Agarwal]:
Good topic, thanks very much.
I will absorb the quintessence apply in my conversation in the future.

Replying to [Madhur_Agarwal]: It's a helpful topic,thanks!

Replying to [lindy, honeymoon, Grace Tung]:

Dear Lindy

I am happy it helped

Madhur Agarwal

Quoting from [Madhur_Agarwal]:


Dear Friends


Sentence Stress is golden key number two for speaking

and understanding English. With Sentence Stress, some

*words* in a sentence are "stressed" (loud) and other

words are weak (quiet). Look at the following sentence:


We want to go.


Do we say every word with the same stress or force? No!

We make the important words *big* and the unimportant

words small. What are the important words in this

sentence? Yes, you're right: WANT and GO.


We WANT to GO.


We WANT to GO to WORK.


We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK.


We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK at NIGHT.


madhur Agarwal

Madhur's presentation on stress applies to the sentence if read in isolation with no context. But, in the give and take of contextualized conversation, there are various possibilities, and they represent differently stressed responses  to what had been said immediately before. WE want to go to work. We WANT to go to work. We want to go to WORK. We want to go to work at NIGHT.
Each sentence means something different depending on what the sentence is a response to. One thing is nearly always true: articles ("a", "the") are not emphatic (stressed), and prepositions aren't either. In Madhur's examples, the "to" (as part of the infinitive in "to want" and "to go" is historically an infinitive. See my question for win points about this.