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Difficulty: MediumEmphatic Stress

Read the statement containing emphatic stress below and complete the contrastive question that correctly elicits it.

Answer:Statement: 'The BOTANIST identified the rare species in the reserve.'

Contrastive Question: 'Did the zoologist 【identify】 the rare species in the reserve?'

Answer

The correct word to complete the contrastive question is 'identify'.
The word 'identify' correctly completes the contrastive question. When emphatic stress is placed on the subject ('BOTANIST'), the eliciting question must challenge that subject by substituting a different noun ('zoologist') while preserving the exact action ('identify') and object details from the statement. Grammatically, 'Did' requires the base form of the verb.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Locate the word bearing emphatic stress in the given statement.
The word printed in full capital letters is 'BOTANIST', which functions as the subject of the sentence.
Emphatic stress indicates the specific point of contrast that the preceding question must address.
2
Determine how the contrastive question should be constructed.
The question must introduce a contrasting subject ('zoologist') while keeping the rest of the predicate identical to the statement.
To elicit emphatic stress on the subject, only the subject of the statement is contradicted in the question; all other details (action, object, location) must remain unchanged.
3
Apply correct grammatical rules to complete the verb phrase in the question.
Following the auxiliary verb 'Did', the main verb must take its base form 'identify'.
English syntax requires an uninflected base verb after the past-tense auxiliary 'Did'.

Key Concept

Emphatic Stress in Oral English
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