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Difficulty: MediumEmphatic Stress

In the sentence below, the word printed in CAPITAL letters carries the primary emphatic stress:

The chief pediatrician WARMLY welcomed the medical interns to the teaching hospital.

Which of the following questions is the appropriate response to the statement above?

  1. Did the chief pediatrician COLDLY welcome the medical interns to the teaching hospital?Answer
  2. B
    Did the chief pediatrician warmly REJECT the medical interns at the teaching hospital?
  3. C
    Did the chief SURGEON warmly welcome the medical interns to the teaching hospital?
  4. D
    Did the chief pediatrician warmly welcome the SENIOR RESIDENTS to the teaching hospital?

Answer

Did the chief pediatrician COLDLY welcome the medical interns to the teaching hospital?
The question inquiring if the chief pediatrician COLDLY welcomed the medical interns is correct because 'COLDLY' directly contrasts with the emphasized word 'WARMLY', while all other parts of the statement remain unchanged.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the word in the sentence that carries the emphatic stress.
The word printed in capital letters is 'WARMLY', an adverb of manner.
Emphatic stress indicates the specific point of contrast or focus in a statement.
2
Determine the correct contrastive question rule for emphatic stress in JAMB UTME.
The correct contrastive question must disagree with or question ONLY the stressed word ('WARMLY'), replacing it with a contrasting word ('COLDLY'), while keeping all other elements of the sentence unchanged.
Stress on 'WARMLY' implies that the speaker is correcting a misconception about how the action was performed.
3
Evaluate the options against the contrastive question rule.
The option asking if the chief pediatrician 'COLDLY' welcomed the interns correctly targets 'WARMLY', while other options incorrectly target the subject, verb, or direct object.
Only the question introducing 'COLDLY' directly elicits the emphasized response.

Key Concept

Emphatic stress in English speech highlights a specific word in a sentence to convey contrastive focus. The corresponding question must query or contradict only the stressed word.
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