eg Statements:
General questions:
Special questions:
Imperatives (requests):
Exclamations:
There's vno 'need to 'lose your
/temper. (Sc. H.) "That's ,all. (H. Pr. N.) ^Hadn't you 'been to A;merica?
(Sc. H.) "Did you /know him? (H. Pr. N.)
How did you 'manage to 'do
;that? (Sc. H.) "What /Size do you take?
(H. Pr. N.) vCome and 'fetch me to,morrow.
(Sc. H.)
Cheer /Up. (H. Pr. N.) vBetter 'late than ;never. (Sc. H.) "Good /night. (H. Pr. N.)
| Group | IV. Patterns and Meaning (Summary) |
| Patterns | Meaning |
| Common Non-Emphatic Usage | |
| Pattern One (No Head) Pattern Two |F. H.) Pattern Three (H. L H. or M. L. H.) | encouraging further conversation, non-final, non-categoric: in statements — soothing, reassuring, sometimes surprised, disbelieving; in general questions — genuinely Interested; in special questions — friendly. sympathetically interested, sometimes puzzled, wondering; in imperatives (requests) — soothing, reassuring, encouraging; in exclamations — friendly, airy, casual |