1. What attitudes are conveyed by the speaker in phrases pronounced with Patterns One and Two?
2. If a speaker wants to contradict somebody, sound grumbling and reproachful, what pattern of Group VI would he use?
3. Draw on the blackboard the Sliding Head + Rise-Fall pattern. Give your own examples with it. Define the attitudes expressed. Then the same examples with High Falls + High Fall + Rise. Read them aloud. Specify the difference in meaning.
4. What emphatic pattern with the Fall-Rise is used only occasionally?
GROUP VII. RISE-FALL-RISE
Patterns
Occasional One. (Low Pre-Nuclcus) + Rise-Fall-Rise ( +Tail)
emphatic Two. (Low Pre-Head +) + Falling Head + Rise-Fall-Rise
usage (+ Tail)
Patterns of this group have only occasional emphatic usage. They have the same attitudes as in Group VI (the Fall-Rise), the emphasis being intensified.
Pattern One. (No Head)
Pattern Two. (Falling Head) . * • — ..
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Note: Other patterns with the Rise-Fall-Rise are still more rare.
eg Statements: -Yes. (No Head)
The ^weather is Very - cold. (F. H.)
General questions: Is she -young? (No Head)
vIs she'still at-home? (F. H.)
Special questions:
Imperatives:
-Why? (No Head)
vWhy couldn't you 4vait for me
'all-day? (F. H.) - Do. (No Head)
Don't say 'anything at -all.
(F. H.)
Group VII. Occasional Emphatic Usage (Summary)
| Patterns | Meaning |
| Pattern One.. (No Head) Pattern Two (F. H.) | the same attitudes as in Group VI. only the emphasis being intensified |