McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry : with Rules for Reading, and Exercises in Articulation, Defining, EtcClark, Austin & Smith, 1890 - 336 pages |
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... sentence as uttered in private conversation , he will observe , that scarcely two successive words are pronounced in exactly the same tone . At the same time , how- ever , there is a certain pitch or key , which seems , on the whole ...
... sentence as uttered in private conversation , he will observe , that scarcely two successive words are pronounced in exactly the same tone . At the same time , how- ever , there is a certain pitch or key , which seems , on the whole ...
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... sentence is commenced with vehemence , and in a high tone , and the voice gradually sinks , word by word , until , the breath being spent , and the lungs exhausted , it dies away at the close in a whisper . The habit of sing - song , so ...
... sentence is commenced with vehemence , and in a high tone , and the voice gradually sinks , word by word , until , the breath being spent , and the lungs exhausted , it dies away at the close in a whisper . The habit of sing - song , so ...
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... sentence may be pronounced on the same pitch with different degrees of loudness . Having practiced with different degrees of loudness on one key , make the same experiment on another , and then on another , and 80 on . It will be found ...
... sentence may be pronounced on the same pitch with different degrees of loudness . Having practiced with different degrees of loudness on one key , make the same experiment on another , and then on another , and 80 on . It will be found ...
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... sentence gracefully . The ear , however , is the best guide on this point . Parts of a sentence often make complete sense in themselves , and in this case , unless qualified or restrained by the succeeding clause or unless the contrary ...
... sentence gracefully . The ear , however , is the best guide on this point . Parts of a sentence often make complete sense in themselves , and in this case , unless qualified or restrained by the succeeding clause or unless the contrary ...
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... sentence necessarily closes with the rising inflection . Sometimes also , emphasis alone seems to require the rising inflection on the concluding word . See exception to Rule II . Remark . As a sentence generally ends with the falling ...
... sentence necessarily closes with the rising inflection . Sometimes also , emphasis alone seems to require the rising inflection on the concluding word . See exception to Rule II . Remark . As a sentence generally ends with the falling ...
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Common terms and phrases
Abishai Absalom Ahimaaz ARTICULATE distinctly Babylon beautiful birds boat bosom called cesura character child children of men circumflex clouds commenced dark dear death deep ducats earth emphasis emphatic eternity examples exercise Explain the inflections eyes falling inflection father fault fear feel genius give hand happy hast hath head heard heart heaven hour human inflections marked Joab judge kind king laws lesson light live look Lord Lord Byron mind mother nature never nouns o'er object paragraph Parse passed pause Pinneo's Analytical Grammar poetry poor praise PRONOUNCE Correctly pupil QUESTIONS QUESTIONS.-What reader Repeat rising inflection Rule Rule II sentence shalt ship Shylock Socrates soul sound spirit stanza syllable teacher Tell thee thing thou thought thousand thousand guineas tion tone unto utterance verbs voice waves William Reed wind words young