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LANGUAGE NOTES
• What can I do for you today? Notice that this question starts with “What,” so the • Oh, yeah! is an expression used here to mean “I just remembered something.” It’s often
intonation drops at the end of the question. followed by “I almost forgot.”
• Or you can send it priority … Notice the stress on “or,” which emphasizes that there is • Your total comes to … is a way of saying “the cost is ….”
another possibility.
• $11.35 ... $20.35 Notice the two different ways the postal clerk says the price. First he
says eleven thirty-five (without the words dollars and cents), then he says twenty dollars
and thirty-five cents.
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