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Difficulty: EasyEmphatic Stress

Fill in the blank with the appropriate contrastive question that elicits the given response with emphatic stress.

Answer:Statement: The TAILOR sewed a beautiful dress for the bride.
Question: 【Did the carpenter sew a beautiful dress for the bride?】
Response: No, the TAILOR sewed a beautiful dress for the bride.

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Did the carpenter (or another subject other than the tailor) sew a beautiful dress for the bride?
Emphatic stress is used to highlight or correct specific information in a sentence. When 'TAILOR' is capitalized, it indicates that the speaker is correcting a wrong assumption about who sewed the dress. Thus, the question must ask whether someone other than the tailor performed the action.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the word bearing emphatic stress in the statement.
The word capitalized is 'TAILOR', which functions as the subject of the sentence.
Capitalization signals contrastive focus on that specific element.
2
Determine the appropriate question structure required to elicit emphatic stress on 'TAILOR'.
The question must replace 'tailor' with a different subject while leaving the action ('sewed'), object ('a beautiful dress'), and target recipient ('for the bride') identical.
Emphatic stress corrects an false assumption about the stressed item made in the preceding question.

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Emphatic Stress
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