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High rise




Fall-rise

Tag questions

Enumerating

Direct address

/TOM, could you /HELP me, please?

/SIR, you dropped your \NOTEbook.

Mr. /SMITH, your papers are \READy.

If direct address is at the end of the sentence, it may be pronounced with a rise or just with a stress on it.

Good \MORNing, /JANE.

Good \MORNing, Jane.

Good-\BYE, /Tom.

Note:

Polite greetings and responses to them when meeting people and saying good-bye have some peculiarities in the use of rising and falling intonation. Listen to sample phrases in Listening for Phrases: Greetings in the section Phrases.

/One, /two, /three, /four, \five.

She bought /bread, /cheese, and to\MAtoes.

The choice of a rise or a fall in the second part of tag questions depends on whether the speaker is sure of getting an affirmative answer.

It's a beautiful \TOWN, /ISN'T it? (The speaker thinks that the town is beautiful but asks for your opinion and confirmation.)

It's a beautiful \TOWN, \ISN'T it? (The speaker is sure that the town is beautiful and expects you to agree.)

You don't speak \FRENCH, /DO you? (The speaker thinks that you don't speak French but is not completely sure and asks for confirmation.)

You don't speak \FRENCH, \DO you? (The speaker is sure that you don't speak French and expects you to agree.)

Note that the falling tone is always used in the first part of tag questions (disjunctive questions). Despite the fact that tag questions are asked to get confirmation and agreement, the answer may be affirmative or negative. (Read more about different types of questions, including tag questions, in Word Order in Questions in the section Grammar.)

Fall-rise may be used instead of the normal rising tone in unfinished parts of sentences, for example, in introductory phrases or subordinate clauses at the beginning of the sentence. Fall-rise signals non-finality and continuation of the utterance and emphasizes the word on which it is used. The voice first falls down and then goes up within one word.

If we don't act very \ /FAST, we may lose \EVErything.

The article said that Dr. Alan \ /SMITH was the only person who saw the \KILLer.

High rise may be used for expressing strong surprise or disbelief in questions, for example, in surprised echo questions. High rise starts higher and ends higher than the normal rising tone. High rise is very expressive and emphatic. Language learners should use it with caution and not too often.

(1) I'm extremely sorry, but I probably lost the book you gave me.

/WHAT? You lost my /BOOK? (Meaning: I can't believe it.)

(2) Where's my purse? You were here.

Ex/CUSE me? (Meaning: I can't believe you said it and ask you to repeat it.)




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