The term accent emphatic Is used to refer to the graphic symbols and pronunciation used in the words"what","who","when","where","how"and"how much"when they have interrogative or exclamative value. For example: What a joy! What do you want to drink?
Graphically, the emphatic accent is represented by the tildes that are placed in these words. For its part, phonetically, the emphatic accent is represented by pronunciation: if it is an exclamatory sentence, the intonation ascends at the beginning and descends abruptly at the end. If it is an interrogative sentence, the intonation rises towards the end of the question.
The emphatic tildes are part of the diacritic markings (those that are placed to differentiate two words that are written alike but have different functions). In this sense, emphatic tildes do not establish a difference of meaning but are used to differentiate the various functions that a single word can have.
For example:"when"(without tilde) is a temporary adverb while"when"(with tilde) is an interrogative pronoun or adjective.
Examples of emphatic accents
10 examples with"what"
- What do you want to eat today?
- What book are you reading?
- What do you do?
- What symptoms does the patient have?
- What clothes will you wear today?
- "Are they stains of blood, of mud, of raña, of fruit or of what?"
"Scarlet Study"by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- " What Silly we have all been! Contemptuously Malfoy said - . We had to pet him. How could we not think of it?"
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"by J. K. Rowling.
- "Ah. Hmm. What kind of initial event will trigger the war? Azirrafael asked.
"Good omens"by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
- ""What is all this, Ed? Asked Peter.
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"by C. S. Lewis.
- "What else can it be? The first voice answered. It has magic. Wizards spend so many years learning."
"Chronicles of the Black Magician: The Guild of Magicians"by Trudi Canavan.
10 examples with"who"
- Who has done this?
- Who would have guessed that you would be the boss of a company!
- Who walks there?
- Who wants to go to the blackboard and solve this exercise?
- I wondered who it might be at that hour.
- "Who in this family, exhausted by work and tired, was going to have more time than necessary to look after Gregor?"
"The Metamorphosis"by Franz Kafka.
- "He was smiling from ear to ear, but when he reached the Baudelaires, gasping for the long run, he suddenly became shy, and although the Baudelaires were quite curious to know who Was, also found themselves silent"
"A series of unfortunate events: The end"by Lemony Snicket.
- "No one knew and nobody wanted to know who Was the original Voice"
"The Ender Game"by Orson Scott Card.
- "Your! Pharen pointed to the mage. What Who You think you are These are my domains. You're trespassing!"
"Chronicles of the Black Magician: The Guild of Magicians"by Trudi Canavan.
- "On the other hand, who was the blood that formed such a thick layer on the ground? There were no signs of fighting, nor did the victim carry any weapon with which he could have wounded an antagonist."
"Scarlet Study"by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
10 examples with"how"
- How glad I am to hear good news!
- How are you?
- How should this work be done?
- What is your name?
- How do I look?
- How I love you!
- "-You are human?
"Yes, Your Majesty,"said Edmund.
-Y how , If I can know, you penetrated my domains?"
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"by C. S. Lewis.
- "What curious how , Many times, everything was the other way around, the reverse of what they said to one.
"An Unplanned Vacancy"by J. K. Rowling.
- "How the whole point of view changes!"
"The walking castle"by Diana Wynne.
- ""By the way,"I asked suddenly, stopping and turning to look at Stamford. What How Damn, you knew I had come from Afghanistan?"
"Scarlet Study"by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
10 examples with"when"
- When will you come to visit us?
- When was the last time they saw it?
- When are we going to the movies?
- When are you going to stop doing what others want and start doing what you want?
- When will it be time to leave?
- When will I learn to read?
- When will you be silent?
- When will we eat?
- When will it stop raining?
- " When Have you seen a normal time for each station? Newton was annoyed. It's not normal for me to do a normal time in every season, Sergeant. It snows them at Christmas. What When Was the last time you saw Christmas snow?"
"Good omens"by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
10 examples with"where"
- Where is Atlantis, the lost island?
- Where is my necklace?
- Where is the sky?
- Where did you leave the bike?
- Where are we going to eat?
- Where are the car keys?
- "Tell me where Are the last years"
"Song"by John Donne.
- "It was an old house and it was not hard to know where exactly each member of the Price family was."
"An Unplanned Vacancy"by J. K. Rowling.
- "It's Sirius Black,"he agreed. Of course he has been on the muggle television news, Neville. What Where Have you been all this time?
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"by J. K. Rowling.
- "It took me a long time to discover where My two gentlemen lived; But by asking and asking, I found them."
"Scarlet Study"by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
10 examples with"how much"
- Long time no see!
- How much beauty there is in this city!
- How many fingers do you see here?
- How long will it take to arrive?
- How many magazines have you read this month?
- How long will the treatment go on for?
- How much mystery!
- How true are your words!
- How much more should we expect?
- How many grains of sand are there on the beach?
References
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- Accent. Retrieved on June 9, 2017, from merriam-webster.com
- Emphatic accents. Retrieved on June 9, 2017, from perseus.tufts.edu
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