The ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic of uzbekistan

 
 
3.
Read the situations to yourself and according to their contents, mark the intonation of 
the sentences in bold type: 
1. I remember, after my grandfather died
 we moved away from that house to a new house
 designed and 
built by my mother. 2. At first Kerbs … did not want to talk about the war at all. 
Later he felt the need to 
talk
 but no one wanted to hear about it. 
3. But the world they were in was not the world he was in.
 4. 
“But really you should have a lady’s-maid!” 
“I’m sure I’ll take you with pleasure!” 
the Queen said. 
“Two pence a week, and jam every other day” Alice couldn’t help laughing, as she said, 
“I don’t want 
you to hire me and I don’t care for jam,” “It’s very good jam,”
 said the Queen. 
 
4. Read the following sentences paying attention to the unstressed 
as…as 
:
 
 
1. He could not lie as quietly as I could. 2. Jim was not as surprised as he sounded. 3. She was as pale as 
a sheet. 4. The old man had told his son to let him know as soon as the post arrived. 5. They were as 
happy as a pair of small boys. 6. His silence was as sultry as the day before a storm. 7. He was as 
welcome among them as at the other place. 8. The sea was as smooth as a millpond. 9. They could live on 
the farm as long as they wished. 10. How many sandwiches shall I make? Make as many as you think 
we’ll eat.
 

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Rhythm 
 
Rhythm
in speech is the recurrence of stressed syllables in a sense-group at certain 
intervals of time. In connected English speech stressed syllables have a strong tendency to 
follow each other as nearly as possible at equal intervals of time and the unstressed 
syllables (whether many or few) occupy the time between the stressed syllables. The 
greater the number of unstressed syllables, the quicker they are pronounced, e.g. 
'Andrew 'went 'back to 
ˎ
London. 
'Andrew has 'gone 'back to 
ˎ
London.
'Andrew should have 'gone back to 
ˎ
London.