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Doctor's Orders

Servant: Sir, wake up, wake up!

Master: What is the matter?

Servant: It's time to take your sleeping tablets.

Mrs. Brown: Don't you think, doctor, you've rather overcharged for attending Jimmy when he had the measles?

Doctor: You must remember, Mrs. Brown, that includes twenty-two visits.

Mrs. Brown: Yes, but you forget he infected the whole school!

SECTION THREE. Intonation Pattern X
(LOW PRE-HEAD+) RISING HEAD + HIGH FALL (+ TAIL)

Model: I wonder when Alice's train is due.
— ä Look it 'up in the `time-,table.

The syllables of the Rising Head preceding the High Fall gradually carry the pitch up.

Stress-and-tone mark in the text:

The first stressed syllable: │ä│

This intonation pattern is used:

1. In statements, conveying personal concern, involvement, disgruntled protest.

е.g. Haven't you brought the carp? — You _ädidn't ask me ,to.

2. In questions:

a) In special questions sounding unpleasantly surprised or displeased, protesting.

е.g. Send them at once. — _äWhere to?

b) In general questions, protesting, sometimes impatient.

е.g. Thursday's a hopeless day for me. — _äCan't we 'make it a `Friday, ,then?

3. In imperatives, lively, with a note of critical surprise.

е.g. What shall I do? — _äTry it a`gain.

4. In exclamations, conveying affronted surprise, protesting.

е.g. John's coming. — What an ex_ätraordinary `thing.

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