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Examples:

703. 4^th exceptional case. Statements often take a rising intonation at the end, when there is an antithesis, provided that the statement (expressed or implied) with which the contrast is made ends with a falling intonation.

Examples:

(After accidentally getting in a person’s way, etc.)^[1]

(“Other things” contrasted with something previously mentioned.)

(Contradiction.)

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1. Note the difference between this intonation and the intonation of the same words with a different meaning given in § 700.