English 2023 Q43: In each of the following sentences, the word that resolves the emphatic stress is written in capital letters. From the…
Source: JAMB · 2023
In each of the following sentences, the word that resolves the emphatic stress is written in capital letters. From the options letters A to D, choose the one to which the given sentence is the appropriate answer. Daddy plays TENNIS on saturday afternoons
Explanation
The stress on TENNIS corrects the sport. The sentence answers a question that gets the sport wrong.
That question is “Does daddy play cricket on Saturday afternoon?” The reply is: no, he plays TENNIS. The other questions get the person, day or time wrong, not the sport.
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