The key answer of exercise 6
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.2 - A global language? for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
- Use the rule below to help you identify the main clauses and concession clauses in sentences 1-7 above.
- Answer the questions.
- Listen to the sentences. Which part of the sentence uses the higher intonation: the concession clause or the main clause? Listen again and repeat the intonation patterns.
Answer
a)
In each case, the concession clause is the clause which is introduced by the phrase in italics. The other clause is the main clause.
b)
- a comma
- the concession clause
- Despite; In spite of
c)
The concession clause is higher in pitch.
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