The Young Ladies' Reader; Containing Rules, Observations, and Exercises on Articulation, Pauses, Inflections and Emphasis Also Exercises in Reading, in Prose and Poetry - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1851 Excerpt: ... Rule IV. Interrogative sentences, and clauses commencing with verbs, require the rising inflection; as, Are you coming? Is the wind blowing? Is the rain filling r Have you recovered your health? Can a man take fire into his bosom, and his clothes not be bfarnt! Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt! All questions which may be answered by yes or no come under this rule. In all such cases, an answer is demanded or expected, and the sense is consequently, for the time, interrupted or suspended; and where the sense is incomplete or suspended, the rising inflection should be used. Rule V. Interrogative sentences, and clauses commencing with pronouns or adverbs, require the falling inflection; as, Why stand ye here Idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? Questions which cannot be answered by yes or no come under this rule. In such cases, the pronoun or adverb is the emphatic word, which accounts for the change of the inflection.' When questions are followed by answers, the question should be uttered in a high tone of voice, and, after a suitable pause, the answer should be read in a low and firm tone. INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES. You have obliged a man: very well! what would you have more? Is not the consciousness of doing good a sufficient reward? Is there any one who will seriously maintain, that the taste of a Hottentot or a Laplander is as delicate and as correct as that of a Longinus or an Addison? or, that he can be charged with no defect or incapacity, who thinks a common newswriter as excellent an historian as Ta...
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