Intonation of Statements

UNIT 9

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• Mark always gets to work by car in the morning.

• And Dawn walks to work, she is very sporty.

• Mark is the world’s worst walker.

• erg

• earl

• earn

• earth

• irk

• bird

• berg

• fern

• learn

• turn

• fir

• purr

• sir

• stir

• spur

• Burt – bird

• Curt – curd

• hurt – herd

• irk – erg

• work – word

• bird – bed – bad

• burn – Ben – ban

• fern – fen – fan

• learn – Len – Lan

• turn – ten – tan

• arm

• alms

• are

• ask

• bark

• cart

• dart

• part

• tart

• bar

• car

• far

• mar

• tar

• bar – bard – bart

• car – card – cart

• far – farm – fart

• tar – tarn – tart

• bar – by

• tar – tie

• bart – bite

• bark – bike

• park – pike

• or

• orb

• all

• aught

• order

• born

• corn

• autumn

• pawn

• torn

• bore

• core

• four

• paw

• tore

• all – ought

• call – caught

• ball – bought

• tall – taught

• fall - fought