3. Make up sentences using the words and proper names from the table placing direct address at the beginning, at the end or in the middle or the sentence when possible:

1. Here’s a letter for you. Helen

2. What’s the time? David

3. Are we on the right road? Mrs. Smith

4. We’ll be down to breakfast in no time. Antoinette.

5. Who are your letters from? Mary

6. Will you switch on the wireless? Anthony

7. It’s going to rain soon. You’d better take your coat with you. Margaret

8. What subjects are doing this term? Robert

9. I wonder if you could find time to read my paper. Dr. Wilson

10. Mr. Davis is asking for you on the phone. Dr. Walker.

4. Make up your own dialogues following the rule direct address:

a) Old Mrs. Sandford is meeting Mr. White.

b) Betty is talking to Mrs. Sandford.

c) Benny is talking to Granny.

III. Apposition

Apposition is usually stressed and forms a separate intonation group, which follows the melody of the preceding intonation group. It is usually pronounced on a lower pitch-level than the preceding one.

1. Intone, explain the intonation of the following sentences with apposition:

1. Mr. Johns, my uncle, is a very kind and pleasant man.

2. James, my brother-in-law, is a promising lawyer.

3. This is John, my brother.

4. This is my aunt, Mrs. Cute.

5. Let me introduce my friend, Lucy.

6. Miss Brown, our teacher, is a young woman of about twenty-five.

7. Meet my husband, Jack.

8. My mother-in-law, Helen, is a wonderful woman.

9. My cat, Inky, is on the table.

10. My dad, Mr. Freeze, is a successful person.

2. Read the dialogue observing the rule:

A: Hi, Tina! How are you?

B: Fine, and you?

A: Fine. Do you remember Gina?

B: Gina? Gina, who?

A: Don’t you remember Gina, our school-mate?

B: Oh, Our school-mate, Gina, was a very strange girl.

A: Yes. Do you know who she has just got married to?

B: You don’t tell me it’s John, her cousin.

A: No, it’s her boss, Mr. Holly.

B: Just fancy that!

IV. Parenthesis

A parenthesis at the end of the sentence is unstressed and continues the melody of the preceding intonation group.

1. Intone the following sentences with parentheses; show the intonation on the

staves:

1. A walking holiday depends upon the weather, of course.

2. You were badly ill then, as far as I remember.

3. Tastes differ, you see.

4. So you didn’t have any rest, in fact.

5. Jane doesn’t make up, I’m sure.

6. I feel bad, indeed.

7. Betty is a good girl, I say.

8. Her friends are jolly, at least.

9. She’ll get a good job, I hope.

10. They don’t have problems with all their pets, I guess.

2. Make up sentences using the following parenthetical words and phrases at the end of them.

1. …., of course.

2. …, anyhow.

3. …, I’m sure.

4. …, I believe.

5. …, as far as I know.

6. …, I think

7. …, I’m afraid.

8. …., as a rule.

9. …, in fact.

10. …, so to say.

3. Read the dialogues observing the rule:

1) A: Excuse me, Can you tell me where ‘The Knight’s hotel’ is.

B: It’s over there, along the narrow road, as far as I know.

A: Oh, it’s outside the town, then?

B: Yes. It’s south of the town, in fact. You can see that school building, of

course. You just go past it and then turn to the right.

A: Thank you very much, indeed.

2) A: What time do you usually get up, as a rule?

B: About half past seven, I think.

3) A: What shall I do? Everything is spoilt, I see.

B: You’ll have to start again, I’m afraid.

4) A: I must be going now. I’m very short of time.

B: We’ll meet tomorrow, I hope.

5) A: Why not buy this set of furniture?

B: It’s too expensive, you know.

In the middle of the sentence, a parenthesis is not stressed and usually

pronounced as an unstressed or half-stressed tail of the preceding intonation group. It doesn’t form a separate intonation group.

A longer parenthetical phrase in the middle of the sentence may form a separate intonation group. It follows the intonation of the preceding intonation group and is pronounced on a lower pitch level and at a quick tempo.