The American SpeakerExcerpt from The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises on Pronunciation, Pauses, Inflections, Accent, and Emphasis Exercises on the Interrogation, Exclamation, and Parenthesis. Table of Inflections on the Series. Simple Commencing Series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... SENTENCE . RULE II . - Negative sentences , or members of sentences , must end with the rising inflection . EXAMPLES . 1. The region beyond the grave is not a solitary ' land . There your fathers are , and thither every other friend ...
... SENTENCE . * RULE VIII . - The member that forms perfect sense must be separated from those that follow by a long pause and the falling inflection . EXAMPLES . 1. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of ...
... sentences of a particular import or structure , there is still another source of variety , in those parts of a sentence where the sense is not at all concerned , and where the variety is merely to please the ear . There are many members ...
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DIFFERENT Methods by which the Principles and Lessons may | 15 |
Sentences depending on Adjectives | 21 |
Exclamation | 28 |
Copyright | |
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