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Intermediary (mixed) communicative types of sentences Blokh 2008: pp. 286-291

Intermediary communicative sentence models: Statement – Question Statement – Inducement Inducement - Question

+ S  Q Q  S (Rhetorical question)

S  Q “I wonder why they come to me about it.” “But surely I may treat him as a human being.” – “Most certainly not” (B. Shaw) “I don’s disturb you, I hope, Mr. Cokane.” – “By no means” (B. Shaw) “Wait a second, you haven’t told me your address.” – “Oh, I’m staying…” (A. Christie)

Q  S (= Rhetorical question) Can a leopard change his spots? “That was my mission, you imagined. It was not, but where was I to go?” (O. Wilde) How could I have ever thought I could get away with it! (J. Osborne)

In living speech… “How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being?” – “My dear!” (O. Wilde)

Rhetoric questions may be followed by a direct answer which only accentuates the declarative nature of the questions: “What more can a woman desire in this world?” – “Nothing more, I am quite sure.”

The answer may be given by the speaker himself… “Who, being in love, is poor? Oh, no one.” (O. Wilde)

A rhetorical question used as an answer to a genuine question: – Albina, are you preparing a free talk for tomorrow? – Well, who else will?

FEEL THE DIFFERENCE: Had she had what was called a complex all the time? Or was love always sudden like this? A wild flower seeding on a wild wind? (J. Galsworthy)

Declarative-imperative Declarative-imperative

S  I You ought to get rid of it, you know. “You might as well sit down,” said Javotte. “And if you’ll excuse me, Lady Eileen, I think it’s time you were going back to bed.” The firmness of his tone admitted of no parley. (A. Christie)

I  S The Forsyte in him said: “Think, feel, and you’re done for!” (J. Galsworthy) Talk of the devil and he will appear. Live and learn. Live and let live. Don’t cross the bridge till you get to it.

Imperative-interrogative type

I  Q “Tell me about your upbringing.” – “I should like to hear about yours.” (E.J. Howard) Please, tell me what I can do.

Q  I (the reverse intermediary construction) I’m having a party tonight. Would you like to come? (the speaker feels hopeful that his interlocutor will accept the implied invitation) Can I take you home in a cab? And you will come too, Basil, won’t you?

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