What would be the most emphatic positive answer to this question? 'Who's coming swimming this afternoon?'
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I.
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I am.
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Me.
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I'm.
Q.2.
Which of these reaches most forcefully towards the centre of the problem?
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'What seems to be the trouble?'
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'Whatever is the matter with Charlie?'
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'What on earth is going on in here all of a sudden?'
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'What's everyone been up to?'
Q.3.
Which of these comes across as the most forceful version?
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You really oughtn't to go rummaging in the cellar.
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It is categorically forbidden to access the basement.
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I'm very much afraid that downstairs is out of bounds.
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The lower floor is off-limits until further notice.
Q.4.
In the heyday of the theatre-organ at the Tower Ballroom in the seaside resort of Blackpool, the resident organist (Reginald Dixon, 1930-70) used to play as his 'signature tune' an old music-hall song from 1907 whose chorus began with the words: 'Oh ~ I ... ...
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... enjoy being at the beach.'
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... love spending time beside the ocean.'
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... do like to be beside the seaside.'
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... 'm fairly fond of a seaside holiday, thank you very much.'
Q.5.
Which would probably be the most effective way of reminding someone of an important point you made earlier?
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I need hardly remind you, surely, about what I said to you yesterday morning.
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You haven't gone and forgotten my advice already, have you?
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It sounds to me as though I'd been wasting my breath, warning you about this yesterday morning.
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Just remember what I said, would you?
Q.6.
Which is the strongest form of denial here? 'You've never been guilty of a criminal offence, have you?' ...
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'No.'
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'I never have.'
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'Categorically not.'
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'I never did.'
Q.7.
In the modern-traditional version of the church Marriage Service, each person in the couple-to-be is asked, 'Will you take N. (= name) to be your lawful wedded wife/husband?' And the reply is : ...
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'I do.'
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'I will.'
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'I must.'
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'I shall.'
Q.8.
Which is the most strongly persuasive way of introducing this idea? ' ... ... stuck in the middle of nowhere on a dark wet windy night, just 'cos you'd missed the last bus.'
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'Don't get yourself ...
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'You wouldn't want to be ...
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'How daft to let yourself get ...
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'Only a gibbering idiot would get ...
Q.9.
Which is the most successfully, and persuasively, emphatic way to give a contradictory answer here? 'I don't suppose any of you has thought to bring along any relevant documents?' ...
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I did.
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As a matter of fact, I have.
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No, I fear not ~ not in my case, at any rate.
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Well, you'd be mistaken then.
Q.10.
What would be the most emphatic NEGATIVE answer to this question? 'Who's coming swimming this afternoon?'
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'Not b****y likely!'
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'No chance.'
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'I'm not.'
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'Definitely not me.'
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