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✅ 15 Pronunciation & Intonation Practice Sentences Could you run the diagnostics again before the next meeting?(Rising-falling intonation; stress on "run", "diagnostics", "next meeting") I’ll email you the full report by the end of the day.(Contracted “I’ll” and natural linking between "email you") This version is more efficient, especially under heavy load.(Contrastive stress on “more efficient” and “heavy load”) We need to optimize the code to reduce latency.(Stress on “optimize”, “code”, and “latency”) Let’s push the update to production tomorrow morning.(Linking “push the update” / Rhythm: “tomorrow morning”) Are you saying the issue only happens in real-time simulations?(Rising tone to show clarification; stress on “only” and “real-time simulations”) As far as I know, the API hasn’t changed recently.(Stress pattern: “As far as I know” – natural speech rhythm) What exactly do you mean by “integration issue”?(Clear rising pitch on “what exactly”; quotation intonation on “integration issue”) Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.(Falling polite intonation, linking: “know if there’s”) It’s critical that we meet the deadline this quarter.(Strong emphasis on “critical” and “deadline”) Have you tested it across multiple platforms?(Rising intonation to indicate a yes/no question) Once the system is stable, we can scale globally.(Pausing and emphasis after “Once the system is stable”) He mentioned a bug in the firmware, didn’t he?(Tag question with rising tone at the end) We’ll be presenting our findings at the industry summit.(Stress on “presenting”, “findings”, and “industry summit”) Honestly, I don’t think the client fully understood the risks.(Intonation for emphasis: “Honestly,” and stress on “fully understood”)