Adverbial Phrases

Adverbial phrases at the beginning of a simple sentence nor­mally form a separate intonation group pronounced with the Low Rise or the Mid Level, eg:

> Yesterday | I "* stayed ^ in all day.

On the , side-board | the VBrowns 'usually have a 'bowl of _x fruit.

In sentence final position the adverbial phrases do not form an intonation group, eg:

I ~* stayed _г in all .day yesterday.

The V Browns 'usually have a 'bowl of _vfruit on the .side board.

But if the adverbial phrase in the sentence final position qual­ifies the meaning of the sentence, rather in a manner of an after­thought, added comments, restrictions or clarifications, it is pro­nounced as a separate intonation group, eg:

Any news of Mary? — She is "* coming to ,Moscow | to-day. What shall I do with it? — Send it a_tway | at ,once.

So as we see here in the reply to the first question the speak­er wants primarily to say that Mary is coming to Moscow, the

second part of the reply giving additional comments to the phrase.