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In the example above the speaker expresses his/her feelings concerning the fact that the female in question is
not
only beautiful, but beautiful to a high degree on the scale of beauty (unless it is uttered ironically)
(Bijar,2002: 9)
Some wh-questions (called by Rett (2008: 613)
Inversion exclamatives have
the force of an exclamative
particularly when intensified by some adverbs. Svartvik & Leech (1985) state that 'You can intensify the
emotive force of a wh- question by adding some adverbs like
ever, on earth etc. to the wh- word. They cite
the following examples:
How
ever did he escape? {I just can't imagine!}
Why
on earth you didn't tell me? {How silly of you!}
What
in Heaven's name does he think he's doing? {The idiot!}
The utterances as such are all scalar; they all refer to phenomena on high positions on various scales.
Also when the subjunctive is combined with inversion may do as exclamations as in
Far it be from me! as
pointed out by Quirk et al (1985:204).
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