1. Read the following sentences. Observe the rule:

1. “I don’t know,” he said quietly.

2. “What is it for?” he asked in a low voice.

3. “Come here,” she ordered in a sharp voice.

4. “Pleased to meet you, Henry,” he said holding out his hand.

5. “It hasn’t rained since Sunday,” she said looking through the window at a dry road.

6. “Do you really think so?” asked Mrs. Moore with doubt in her voice.

7. “Did you here me?” he repeated again sounding serious.

8. “Have you seen Mary or Jane?” she asked.

9. “She’ll be all right in two days” the doctor replied with a smile.

10. “Oh, I’m going back with Mr. Morrison,” she said.

11. “I don’t really mean that, ma’am,” said the girl, and there was pain in her voice.

12. “My husband is coming in a moment,” said Mrs. Martin, taking off her hat.

2. Read the dialogues according to the rule:

1)

“Tickets, please!” called the attendant as the entered the hall.

“You’ve got them, haven’t you, Emily?” asked Miss Green.

“Yes, of course!” her friend answered, handing them to the attendant.

“This way, please,” he said going on ahead of them.

2)

“And how are you today?” smiled the doctor, entering the little girl’s room.

“All right, thank you,” she answered, looking at him timidly.

“Open your mouth!” he said, bending over her bed. “Now say AH!” he

added, as he peered down her throat.

“Do you think she’s better, doctor?” asked the mother.

“She’ll be all right in a day or two,” the doctor replied with an encouraging

smile.

XI. Accidental rise

If the speaker wants to make one word more prominent than the others he

pronounces it a little higher than the preceding syllables. This nonfinal rise is called accidental. It never occurs on the first stressed syllable.

1. Read the following sentences observing the rule:

1. Two girls and a dog were waiting to cross the road.

2. She wore a thin cotton frock and a pink woolen jumper much too large for her.

3. There was not much of the dog, yet he carried himself with the air of a very large and important dog.

4. Meanwhile the dog continued the way undisturbed.

5. The little girl entered my tent with a timid eagerness.

6. The little girl brushed a hanging lock of hair hanging from Dan’s forehead.

7. Joe was not very fond of running.

8. In spring Nature awakens from its long winter sleep.

9. The woods and forests are filled with the songs of the birds.

10. John’s umbrella is quite spoilt.

11. We went for a day’s walk in the forest in spite of the rain.

12. I have an English lesson every day.

2. Read the following sentences emphasizing the accidental rise:

1. And he went off quietly after he had drunk it and got into a carriage, which I thought mean.

2. Harris grew more cheerful.

3. It seemed to me that George harped too much on the getting upset idea.

4. Then Harris packed the strawberry jam on top of a tomato.

5. I remember a holiday of mine being completely ruined one late autumn by our paying attention to the weather report of the local newspaper.

6. Biggs’s boy was the first to come round.

7. They had to wait until one of the keepers came back from his dinner.

8. Then Harris tried to open the tin with a pocket- knife, and broke the knife and cut himself.

9. In spring Nature awakens from its long winter sleep.

10. The weather gets gradually warmer.

11. Ann was wearing a white dress and some wonderful flowers in her head.

12. The groom was wearing a traditional morning suit.