Emphatic Questions and Answers

Emphatic questions are easy. Just take your emphatic sentence and pass it through the "sed" program.In English, this means to substitute a question mark for the period at the end of the sentence. In spoken Welsh, it means to end the sentence with a rising inflection. Thus,

He is a boy. Is he a boy? I'm causing the problem. Am I causing the problem?

How to emphasize a situation/element (forum.wordreference.com):

o One must highlight
One must emphasize
One must underline
One must bring attention to / you must draw your attention to

o in particular.... / especially

Emphatic forms, sometimes called the emphatic tenses or emphatic mood, (Using English)
are made with the auxiliary verb do in the present or past tense + the base form of the verb:
"He doesn't work very hard."
"I don't agree with you- he does work very hard."
In the second sentence, the speaker uses the emphatic form does work as a way of contradicting the first speaker."

Emphasis (Wikipedia)
"The dummy auxiliary do is used for emphasis in positive statements (see above):
I do like this beer!"

Emphatic tenses:
I do take medicine for an allergy." (present emphatic tense)
I did take medicine for an allergy. (past emphatic)
I will take allergy medicine. (future emphatic)

"The emphatic form of the verb infers the speaker's degree of determination. The construction of the verb changes when the emphatic form is used. However, the sense of time does not change when the emphatic verb form is used in place of the less emphatic form.

Emphatic tense is used in a popular ceremony.Question: Do you take this (person) to be your lawful wedded (spouse)?
Answer: I do. (Emphatically, I do!)"

You shall return.

Emphatic statements
"In spoken English, words can be emphasized by being pronounced with a heavier stress than usual. This type of emphasis is usually indicated in written English by means of italics or underlining."

"Emphatic statements are often used in conversation; for instance, when one speaker is contradicting another."
e.g. "I don't believe he works very hard."
"Yes, he does work hard."

+ Examples of emphatic statements in all of the present and past tenses.

"Sometimes it is desired to emphasize a negative statement containing the word not."

The so-called emphatic 'do' has many uses in English.

Cartoons:

I DO understand (Uncaring Cartoons - cartoonstock.com)

I DO have fun (Money Making Gifts - cartoonstock.com)

Emphatic do

Emphatic do and negation with do are semantically the same thing. Emphatic do has also a contrastive nature. This use is reducible to the same basic components as negation. According to Stein (1990: 272) the first unambiguous uses date from around 1600. The following is a clear example of emphatic do with contrastive semantics: V: Thou art a merry fellow and car′st for nothing. C: Not so, sir, I do care for something, but...I do not care for you (Shakespeare 1599, OED 1985: 906, 25c). It may be characterized as both contrastive and focused on the truth of the proposition. It can be paraphrased as "The proposition is true in spite of what could be expected or what has been asserted to the contrary" (Stein 1990: 273). There is contrastiveness involved in these uses of do. They are based on a pre-suppositional set (1990: 274), that is; our image of two entities in the shared knowledge of the world or reality who contrast each other. These entities do not necessarily imply a logical contrast but are based on the speaker′s assumption of the truth of a proposition. Thus emphatic doin this case is brought about emotionally. Apparently, then, emphatic and negative do are semantically based on the same ground (truth of proposition).

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