Ex. 1 Show the difference in the expressiveness of speech through modifications of the speaker’s attitude and the subject matter.

1 a) – Why didn’t you answer? Didn’t you want or couldn’t you understand?

– I couldn’t under stand.

b) - Oh, dear. How did you lose them?

- I couldn’t think.

2 a) – Why don’t you say anything?

- I can’t hear you.

b) – Don’t be silly, Harry. Staying in bed is the only sensible thing to do.

- No seriously, Nora, I can’t bear it.

3 a) – You may call at the bookshop on your way home.

- Where’s that.

b) - You don’t mean to say you’ve forgotten about the interview tomorrow?

- What interview? Oh, that.

4 a) – I’ll do it myself.

- It isn’t easy.

b) – I suppose you ought to make another try and do it.

- But I tell you it isn’t easy.

Ex. 2 Replace the nuclear tone in the following utterances by an emphatic variant so as to express the suggested feelings. Provide an appropriate context for the original and the transformed utterances.

1 I’ll be back at about six. (insistence)

2 I didn’t ex pect them to be back soon. (contrast)

3 Look at those files. (impatience)

4 I went there last year. (disagreement)

5 By the underground? (incredulity, surprise)

Ex. 3 Showing degrees of enthusiasm:

1 He’s ‘quite nice. (not very enthusiastic)

2 He’s nice (more enthusiastic, neutral)

3 He’s ‘’really `nice (very enthusiastic)

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Emphatic tones	\|	Ex. 4 Read the following dialogues, using numbers at the end of phrases as a guide to decide which attitude to choose.

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