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Tate.

If a sentence contains enumeration, all non-final intonation-groups are usually 
pronounced with the Low Rise, each being a bit lower than the preceding one. The final 
intonation-group is pronounced with the Low Fall if the choice of enumeration is 
exhausted.
Exercise
1.
Read the following sentences. Write them down. Observe the intonation of 
enumeration. Make up tonograms. 
1. Mary has laid the table in the usual way, and has put the right number of knives, forks, spoons and 
glasses for each person. 2. I get out of bed, put on my dressing-gown and slippers and go into the 
bathroom. 3. On the dressing table, in front of the looking-glass, you’ll see a hair-brush and a comb, a 
hand-mirror, a bottle of scents and a powder - box. 4. One of the people in the picture is buying stamps, 
another is registering a letter, the third is writing out a fax. 5. It was the first night of “Arms and the 
Man”, a play which had an enthusiastic reception from a crowded house. 6. When the curtain fell at the 
end of the last act there was tremendous applause, accompanied by insistent calls for the author to appear. 

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7. One man in the gallery, however, kept up a string of catcalls and whistling, thus expressing his 
disapproval.
 
 
 
 
Intonation Pattern VIII 
(Low Pre-Head +) Low-Head + Low-Rise (+ Tail)
Model :
He says he’ll never speak to me again. 
He

 
doesn’t

really 
ˏ
mean it. 
 
. . .
 
Stress-and-tone marks in the text: a stressed syllable of the low-head | 

| 
In the usual form of the Low-head, all the syllables contained in it are said on the same,
rather low pitch.
This intonation pattern is used: 
1.
In statements
, encouraging further conversation, reprovingly, critical, guarded, 
reserving judgement, appealing to the listener to change his attitude. 
e.g. I’m just back from seeing my mother.