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The key answer of exercise 11

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.2 - Winners for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

We use different intonation when we quote direct speech and when we report what people said. Listen to the pairs of sentences. Do we use higher intonation for the direct speech or the reported speech?

Answer

Higher intonation for quoting direct speech.