Exercise1-60:TagEndings               CD2Track34

PausetheCDandcompleteeachsentencewithatagending.Usethesameverb,butwiththe oppositepolarity—positivebecomesnegative,andnegativebecomespositive.Then,repeatafterme. CheckAnswer Key, beginning on page 193.

Intonation

Witha query, theintonationrises. Withconfirmation,theintonationdrops.

Pronunciation

Didhe?             Didee? Doeshe?                        Duzzy? Was he?                        Wuzzy? Hashe?                        Hazzy? Ishe?   Izzy? Will he?            Willy? Wouldhe?                        Woody? Can he?                        Canny?

Wouldn'tyou?    Woodenchew? Shouldn'tI?                        Shüdnnäi? Won't he?Woeknee? Didn't he?Didnknee? Hasn'the?Hasa knee? Wouldn't he?     Woodenknee? Isn't he?                        Isa knee?

Isn'tit?              Isa nit? Doesn't it?                        Duzzanit? Aren'tI?    Arenäi? Won'tyou?  Wonechew?

Don'tyou?         Donechew? Can't you?                        Canchew? Could you?                        Cüjoo? Wouldyou?                        Wüjoo?

1.     Thenew clerkis veryslow, isn't he!

2.    But he can improve,                                        ?

3.     She doesn't typevery well,                              !

4.     Theylost theirway,                                         ?

5.     You don't thinkso,                                          !

6.    Idon't think it's easy,                                       ?

7.     I'm yourfriend,                                                ?

8.     You won't be coming,                                      !

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9.     He keeps the books,                                       

10. We have to close the office,                             ?

11. We have closed the office,                               ?

12. We had to close theoffice,                              !

13. We had the officeclosed,                                ?

14. We had already closed theoffice,                   ?

15.  We'd better close theoffice,                             !

16.  We'd rather close theoffice,                             ?

17.  The officehas closed,                                       ?

18.  You couldn't tell,                                              !

19.  You'll be working late tonight,                         ?

20.  He should have beenhere by now,                  !

21.  He should be promoted,                                  !

22.  I didn't send thefax,                                        ?

23.  I won't get araise this year,                             ?

24.  You use the computer.                                     ?

25.  You're used to the computer.                          !

26.  You used to use the computer,                        ?

27.  You never used to workSaturdays,                ?

28.  That's better.                                                     !

Thebasictechniquesintroducedinthischapterarepitch,stress,thestaircase andmusicalnotes,reducedsounds,andwordgroupsandphrasing.Inchapters2through13,werefineandexpandthisknowledgetocovereverysoundofthe Americanaccent.

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