Intonation
So, if I put high intonation to word "your": What is YOUR school record? then it will means question about membership of the difinite school record from a group of records to me.
With a neutral intonation it will be a question about directly record, maybe it`s parameters (jumping altitude, time of swimming/running for a distance) without any doubts about membership of this record to me.
Is intonation used for marking words in questions like in my situation?
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anonymous if I put high intonation to word "your": What is YOUR school record? then it will means question about membership of the difinite school record from a group of records to me. I don't understand your explanation, but if you stress 'your' in that sentence, it suggests that the speaker's ('my') school record was just asked about previously.
- anonymous if I put high intonation to word "your": What is YOUR school record?
- then it will means question about membership of the difinite school record from a group of records to me.
- I don't understand your explanation, but if you stress 'your' in that sentence, it suggests that the speaker's ('my') school record was just asked about previously.
- The high intonation (emphasis) contrasts ' your record' with ' my record'.
- anonymous With a neutral intonation it will be a question about directly record, maybe it`s parameters (jumping altitude, time of swimming/running for a distance) Yes, if I understand you correctly.
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anonymous if I put high intonation to word "your": What is YOUR school record? then it will means question about membership of the difinite school record from a group of records to me.
I don't understand your explanation, but if you stress 'your' in that sentence, it suggests that the speaker's ('my') school record was just asked about previously. The high
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