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important matter with appeared to be a nice man to deal with; you
found a wonderful place for your picnic; your girlfriend is wearing

a beautiful dress.

Drill IV. Read the following text using Tone Group II
intonation patterns where necessary. Get it recorded:

Once Mark Twain wanted to borrow some books from his
friend. But his friend told him that he never lent books to

anybody. He never let anybody take books from his house. "You

mustn't take the books home", he said. "If you want to read these
books you have to read them in my house."

In summer the same friend had to cut grass in his garden. But
he couldn't do it because he had no lawn mower. He asked Mark

Twain to give it to him for a day or two. This time Mark Twain
refused to lend him his lawn mower. "If you want to use the lawn

mower", he said, "you have to do it in my garden".

TONE GROUP III

(Low Pre-Head+)(Low Head+) High Fall (+Low Tail)

Low Head: in the usual form of the low head, all the syllables

contained in it are said on the same, rather low pitch. Before the
high falling nucleus, the low head most often starts on a low pitch

but rises gradually, syllable by syllable, to end just below the

starting pitch of the nucleus.
Tone Group III is used with s t a t e m e n t s as definite and

complete as those with Tone Groups I and II, but expressing rather
a personal concern or involvement in the situation, sounding

lively, interested, polite, friendly, airy.

When a Low Head precedes the High-felling nuclear tone,
the attitude expressed is one of disgruntled protest, irritation.

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