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apposition asked British English choice clause declarative/minor clause imperative clause interrogative clause structure clauses on tone co-ordinate compound sentence Daniel Jones David Abercrombie declarative clause degree of delicacy dependent clause distinct double tonic English intonation example expounded by intonation final lexical item followed by tone grammatical systems grammatical units him/self hypotactic ictus information units interrogative clause John language low rise major plus minor marked information point marked terms marked tonality marked tonicity minor clause minor information point neutral tone nominal group non-tonic operates phonological systems pitch movement predicator primary tone question-tone Randolph Quirk rankshifted relative clause rhythm salient syllable selection SENTENCE FUNCTION sentence structure separate tone group sequence sub-system systems expounded tone 1 tone tone 13 tone concord tone group boundary tone language tone secondary tone tone tonic marked tonic syllable tonicity neutral unmarked term utterance verbal group vocative weak syllables WH-interrogative yes/no