1. How are the patterns of Group I divided according to their usage?
2. Why can Patterns One, Two, Three be referred to the same group according to the expressed attitude?
3. What attitudes of a speaker are expressed by the Low Level Head + the Low Fall?
4. Why can we call the Stepping Head emphatic? How is the emphasis intensified by using it instead of the Falling Head with the Low Fall?
5. How does the use of the Sliding Head with the Low Fall change the common non-emphatic meaning of Group I?
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Head + the Low Fall? 7. Define the attitudes expressed by the High Pre-Nucleus + the
Low Fall.
GROUP II. HIGH FALL
| Common emphatic usage | Patterns |
| One. (LowPre-Nucleus + ) High Fall ( + Tail) Two. |Low Pre-Head + ) Falling Head + High Fall ( +Tail) Three. (Low Pre-Head +) High (Medium) Level Head + High Fall ( +Tail) Four. (Low Pre-Head +) Rising Head + High Fall (+Tail) | |
| Occasional emphatic usage | Five. (Low Pre-Head+ ) Stepping Head + High Fall ( + Tail) Six. (Low Pre-Head+) Sliding Head (High Falls) + High Fall (+Tail) Seven. (Low Pre-Head +) Climbing Head + High Fall (+Tail) Eight. (Low Pre-Head+ ) Scandent Head+ High Fall ( +Tail) Nine. High Pre-Nucleus + High Fall ( + Tall) |
COMMON EMPHATIC USAGE
Patterns One, Two, Three (No Head, Falling Head, High (Medium) Level Headassociated with High Fall)sound final, categoric, light, airy, brisk and interested; convey personal concern īņ involvement. In special questions they sometimes sound very insistent and business-like: