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A parenthesis in the middle or
at the end of a sentence is
usually unstressed or halfstressed and it continues the melody
of the preceding sensegroup.
e. g. I
’
d
→
→
→
→
→
like some
\
salad to begin with.
2.
Compound nouns are usually
pronounced with the stress
on the first element only: a diningroom, a blackboard,
but
icecream, cassetterecorder.
EXERCISES
I. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules:
a) porridge, salt, already, thirsty, bacon, marmalade, father,
meals, diningroom, dinner, passing, butter, sweets, spoon, hus
band, afraid, Smith, moment, about, leave, talking, another;
b) thin, think, bite, hungry, just, article, canteen, please,
kind, chop, glass, mustard, pepper, pass, use, sausage, apple,
right,
discussion, off, mashed.
II. Copy out of the texts the words: a) with the digraphs e e
e e
e e
e e
e e , e a
e a
e a
e a
e a ;
b) with the third type of syllable (vowel + rrrrr ); c) with the first type
of syllable (open syllable).
Ill. a) The material below is to be prepared for reading. Mark the
stresses and tunes. Concentrate your attention on sounds. b) Let your
Достарыңызбен бөлісу: 
