Common Emphatic Usage | |
Pattern Four (L L. H.) | guarded, reserving some judgement, critical, disapproving, wondering, resentful; in imperatives — calmly warning, reserved; in exclamations — reserving some judgement, casually acknowledging |
Occasional Emphatic Usage | |
Pattern Fine (St. H.) Pattern Six Pattern Seven | in statements — self-confident, disbelieving, reproachful; in special questions — cold, business-like challenging; in general questions — disapproving, insistent, interested, concerned; in imperatives — calmly patronizing the same attitudes as in Patterns One, Two, Three, only very much intensified |