JAMB - English Language (2002 - No. 45)
The word in capital letters has emphatic stress. Choose the option that best fits the expression in the sentence.
My uncle retired from the POLICE?
My uncle retired from the POLICE?
Did your brother resign from the police?
Did your sister resign from the police?
Did your uncle retire from the army?
Did your brother retire from the police?
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Emphatic stress places greater stress on a particular word or phrase in a sentence or utterance. In this case, the stress is placed on the word "POLICE". The rule for empathic stress questions is to select the question that has a word that is different from the emphasized word or word in capital letters. Option C does not have "police" in it. Rather, it has "army". Therefore, option C is the answer to this question.