5.Alternative and disjunctive questions Do you live here or out of town?

You live here , don’t you?

Note. In slow colloquial style participial, gerundial, infinitive, prepositional phrases can form syntagms.

Complex and Compound Sentences

They make up two syntagms.

If you are late ask per mission to come in.

Note. Two-member principle clause and an object clause as a subordinate one are joined into one syntagm.

He says

I know

I suppose

Direct Address

The intonation of direct address depends on its position in the sentence.

1.Direct address in sentence-initial position is always stressed, it makes up a separate sense-group. In formal speech it takes the LOW FALL, e.g.Gentlemen, take your seats.

In a friendly conversation the FALL-RISE is preferable, e. g. Ma ry, won’t yousit down?

2.Direct address in sentence-mid or sentence-final position does not make up a separate syntagm. It is pronounced as an unstressed or partially stressed tail of the preceding syntagm, e. g. Good night, Mary!

Note. Direct address after the low falling nucleus can make the LOW RISE without forming a separate syntagm. In this case it sounds informal, friendly, e. g. Good after noon, Mary!

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