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B. 1 will.
A. Excuse me, sir, have you been drinking?
B. Certainly not.
A. I see.
TONE GROUP II
(Low Pre-Head+) Stepping Head+Low Fall (+Low Tail)
Stepping Head: in the stepping head, the stressed syllable of
the first important word is on a high, level pitch; that of the second
important word is a step lower; that of the third a step lower still,
and so on until the nucleus is reached.
Tone Group II is used with final, categoric, considered,
weighty statements; serious, intense, responsible special question;
firm, serious, considered, weighty, pressing imperatives and rather
emphatic, weighty interjections.
Like Tone Group I, Tone Group II may also be used with
general questions to put the question forward as a suggestion or a
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