hate? (_d_) formality? (_e_) excitement?

 

6. Reread some sentence several times and by using different inflections change

the meaning with each reading.

 

7. Note the inflections employed in some speech or conversation. Were they the

best that could be used to bring out the meaning? Criticise and illustrate.

 

8. Render the following passages:

 

Has the gentleman done? Has he completely done?

 

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

 

9. Invent an indirect question and show how it would naturally be inflected.

 

10. Does a direct question always require a rising inflection? Illustrate.

 

11. Illustrate how the complete ending of an expression or of a speech is

indicated by inflection.

 

12. Do the same for incompleteness of idea.

 

13. Illustrate (_a_) trembling, (_b_) hesitation, and (_c_) doubt by means of

inflection.