Exercise 1-57: Phrasing CD Track 31
Repeat after me.
Statement Dogseat bones.
Clauses Dogseat bones, but catseat fish, or As we all know, dogseat bones.
Listing Dogseat bones, kibbles, and meat.
Question Do dogseat bones?
Repeated Do dogseat bones?!!
Question
Tag Question Dogseat bones, don'tthey?
Tag Statement Dogseat bones, DON'Tthey!
Indirect Speech He asked if dogsate bones.
Direct Speech "Do dogseat bones?" he asked. For clarity, break your sentences with pauses between natural word groups of related thoughts or ideas. Of course, you will have to break at every comma and every period, but besides those breaks, add other little pauses to let your listeners catch up with you or think over the last burst of information and to allow you time to take a breath. Let's work on this technique. In doing the following exercise, you should think of using breath groups and idea groups.
