 Re: rising tune
Thank you all for your ideas.
I have one more question,please help me with it.
I found these two sentences when studying the low rising tune;
1.You liked it,did you?
2.They'd like some more,would they?
In the first sentence,"liked" receives stress and in the second one,"like" and "more" are stressed. My book says that we can use the low rising tune if neither the statement nor the tag-question have the word "not" in them. However,I am confused that when we use such intonation ,can we disregard the rule for tag-question ? I mean if the statement is positive like"You liked it",according to the rules,the tag must be in negative form like"didn't you" ,but the two sentence above don't follow the rule.
This really made me puzzled. Please help me.
Thank you in advance. |