在英语句子中,降调表示肯定、决断、坚决或终结,往往意味着说话者已经讲完了,听话者可以接过话头去说了。使用降调有时含有生硬、不容置疑的意味。通常我们会在以下情况使用降调:
- 陈述句用降调,例如:
- Peter is a smart ↘guy.
- Impossible is ↘nothing!
- The best policy is to be ↘honest.
- 特殊疑问句用降调,例如:
- What’s your ↘name?
- Where is your ↘hometown?
- When can you finish your ↘homework?
- 表示命令的祈使句通常用降调,例如:
- Stand ↘up!
- Don’t be a ↘fool!
- Sit down ↘please!
- 问候语常用降调,以示真诚,例如:
- Good ↘morning!
- Have a nice ↘day!
- 感谢语也常用降调,以示真诚,例如:
- Thank ↘you!
- I appreciate you very ↘much!
- 感叹句用降调,例如:
- What a great man!
- How beautiful the view is!
- 在并列句中,采用升调还是降调分两种情况:
- 如果前后两个分句关系紧密,有逻辑上的顺承关系,那么一般前一个分句用升调,后一个分句用降调。例如:
- He opened the ↗door and stepped ↘out.
- Mike Tyson landed a heavy punch on his opponent’s ↗jaw and knocked him ↘out.
- 如果并列句中的前后两个分句之间同等重要,或两个分句之间的关系不紧密,则两个并列分句都用降调。例如:
- The road is ↘clean and the lake is ↘quiet.
- The dog is ↘barking and the boy is ↘crying.
- 如果前后两个分句关系紧密,有逻辑上的顺承关系,那么一般前一个分句用升调,后一个分句用降调。例如: