When I was teaching one of my pronunciation classes this week I found out that my students did not know about the two different intonation patterns for questions in American English. Here they are:
1. Use rising intonation when the question can be answered with a “yes” or a “no”.
2. Use falling intonation when the question starts with a “wh” word such as what, when, where, who or how.
Here is some American English audio for rising intonation.
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