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Difficulty: MediumEmphatic Stress

Complete the contrastive question that correctly elicits the emphatic stress in the statement below.

Statement: The experienced MECHANIC repaired the faulty engine before noon.

Answer:Did the experienced 【electrician】 repair the faulty engine before noon?

Answer

The contrastive question must substitute the capitalized word 'MECHANIC' with a contrasting profession (such as 'electrician' or 'technician') while keeping all other elements of the statement unchanged.
Placing emphatic stress on 'MECHANIC' indicates that the speaker is giving contrastive emphasis to who performed the repair. Therefore, the appropriate question must question the identity of the person by replacing 'MECHANIC' with a contrasting role while leaving the verb, object, and time adjunct unchanged.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the word carrying emphatic stress in the statement.
The word 'MECHANIC' is capitalized, indicating that emphatic stress is placed on the subject performing the action.
Emphatic stress highlights a specific item of information in contrast to alternative possibilities.
2
Formulate the required contrastive question.
The question must introduce a false assumption specifically about the stressed word by replacing 'MECHANIC' with a different profession.
Answering 'No, the experienced MECHANIC repaired the faulty engine before noon' corrects the false noun in the question while affirming the rest of the statement.

Key Concept

Emphatic Stress and Contrastive Focus
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