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Difficulty: MediumEmphatic Stress

Read the statement below in which one word is printed in CAPITAL letters to show emphatic stress. Complete the contrastive question that elicits this statement by filling in the missing word.

Answer:Statement: The senior meteorologist ACCURATELY forecasted the tropical storm.
Question: Did the senior meteorologist 【inaccurately】 forecast the tropical storm?

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The missing word in the contrastive question must be a word that directly contradicts the stressed adverb 'ACCURATELY' (such as 'inaccurately', 'incorrectly', 'wrongly', or 'erroneously'), while preserving all other elements of the statement.
In English oral emphasis, the stressed word ('ACCURATELY') carries contrastive focus. A contrastive question must replace this stressed word with an opposing word (such as 'inaccurately', 'incorrectly', 'wrongly', or 'erroneously') while maintaining identical subject, verb, and object structures.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the word receiving emphatic stress in the statement.
The word with emphatic stress is 'ACCURATELY', which functions as an adverb of manner.
Capitalization indicates that emphatic stress is placed on this specific word to contrast it with an opposing idea.
2
Analyze how emphatic stress relates to contrastive questions.
The correct contrastive question must challenge or contradict only the stressed word while keeping the subject, main verb, and object unchanged.
Emphatic stress is used to correct or clarify information about the specific element being queried.
3
Determine an appropriate word to complete the blank.
Supplying an antonym such as 'inaccurately', 'incorrectly', 'wrongly', or 'erroneously' creates the necessary contrast.
Asking whether the meteorologist forecasted the storm inaccurately triggers the emphatic statement that it was done ACCURATELY.

Key Concept

Emphatic Stress and Contrastive Questions
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