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McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
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EXAMPLES.

Has he arrived'? Yes'.
Will he return'? No'.
Does the law condemn him'? It does not'.

Exception.--If these questions are repeated emphatically, they take the
falling inflection, according to Rule VII.

EXAMPLES.

Has he arrived'?
Will he return'?
Does the law condemn him'?

REMARK.--When a word or sentence is repeated as a kind of interrogatory
exclamation, the rising inflection is used according to the principles of
this rule.

EXAMPLES.

You ask, who would venture' in such a cause! Who would venture'? Rather
say, who would not' venture all things for such an object!

He is called the friend' of virtue. The friend'! ay! the enthusiastic
lover' the devoted protector' rather.

So, also, when one receives unexpected information he exclaims, Ah'!
indeed'!

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