Sentence Stress: Content words - Function words.Version en ligne In English, we use sentence stress to show our listeners which parts of our sentences are the most important, for that, we usually stress content words by saying them slightly louder and more slowly than the function words in the sentence. Taking into account this information, in this activity you should choose the words that belong to each group. par Laura Duarte 1 Content Words 2 Function Words Nouns Adverbs Adjectives Main verbs Question words Pronouns Prepositions Conjuctions Possesives Articles Verb To be Auxiliary verbs