Intonation Contour 1a

Statements

(cool, reserved, detached, unemotional, uninterested, sometimes unsympathetic, disapproving, grim, hostile)

1. . What would you like for dinner? I don’t know.

2. Why have you come? I thought we ought to have a talk.

3. Where will you be at nine o’ clock? I’ll be in my office.

5. Where did you go to school? I was at a number of schools.

General Questions

(detached, phlegmatic, reserved)

1. I shall have to fly there. But can you a fford it?

2. I can’t find my sunglasses anywhere? Have you looked in your handbag?

3. I’ve got so many things to do. Can I help at all?

4. Where shall we stay there? Could we rent an a partment?

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Special Questions

(reserved, cool, uninterested

1. I don’t like that kind of movie. What kind do you like?

2. I’m sorry to trouble you a gain. Now what’s the matter?

3. I’ve tried to do it several times? How many times?

4. My watch is being re paired. Whose watch is that you’ve got on then?

Imperatives

(calm, unemotional, cold)

1. Watch me juggle with these plates. Now look what you’ve done.

2. What de licious looking cherries. Have a few.

3. I can’t tell you now. Then phone me a bout it.

Exclamations

(calm, reserved, unsurprised)

1. What do you think of these flowers? Pretty good.

2. I think you’ve caught a cold. Very likely.

3. Everybody says you won’t do it. What nonsense!

Task 9.