For this question, the word in capital letter has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates. A HAWKER showed him the way to...

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Emphatic stress highlights the word that corrects or contrasts with a mistaken assumption in the preceding question. The stressed word is the new or surprising information.

In the sentence "A HAWKER showed him the way to the park," the stress falls on HAWKER. This means the speaker is emphasising who showed him the way - it was specifically a hawker, not some other type of person.

The question that would trigger this emphasis must be one that names the wrong person. The question "Did a trader show him the way to the park?" identifies a trader as the person who helped, and the speaker's response corrects this by stressing that it was a HAWKER, not a trader. The other options change different elements: the destination ("street" instead of "park"), the person helped ("her" instead of "him"), or use "the hawker" (definite article), none of which would require stressing HAWKER to correct a wrong person type.

The correct answer is the question that mentions a trader instead of a hawker.