What Is Contrastive Stress?

contrastive stress is when you stress a word which you wouldn't normally stress because you're contrasting information so you want to change perhaps the meaning or the focus of a sentence. I'm exactly the same I get lost in my own flat. Well I'm glad it's not just me because it makes me feel a bit sort of like humiliated I feel like a child sometimes. Yeah we're going to look at those three areas in a little bit of detail and as you said contrastive Stress is number one stress in tag questions but also stress for emphasis. So let's look at the first area clear contrastive stress can you explain for people who don't know what is it? And why do