Exercise 1-57: phrasing
Repeat after me.
Dogs eat bones.
Dogs eat bones, but cats eat fish. Or as we all know, dogs eat bones.
Dogs eat bones, kibbles, and meat.
Do dogs eat bones?
Do dogs eat bones?!!
Dogs eat bones, don't they?
Dogs eat bones, DON'T they?
He asked if dogs ate bones.
“Do dogs eat 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.
Repeat after me.
Dogs eat bones.
Dogs eat bones, but cats eat fish. Or as we all know, dogs eat bones.
Dogs eat bones, kibbles, and meat.
Do dogs eat bones?
Do dogs eat bones?!!
Dogs eat bones, don't they?
Dogs eat bones, DON'T they?
He asked if dogs ate bones.
“Do dogs eat 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.