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SENTENCES FOR PRACTICE

Sentences like the following may be read with great advantage, for the
purpose of acquiring distinctness and precision in articulation.

This act, more than all other acts, laid the ax at the root of the evil.
It is false to say he had no other faults.

The hosts still stand in strangest plight. That last still night. That
lasts till night. On either side an ocean exists. On neither side a notion
exists. Among the rugged rocks the restless ranger ran. I said pop-u-lar,
not pop'lar. I said pre-vail, not pr'vail. I said be-hold, not b'hold.

Think'st thou so meanly of my Phocion? Henceforth look to your hearths.
Canst thou minister to a mind diseased? A thousand shrieks for hopeless
mercy call.



ACCENT.

Accent, marked thus ('), is an increased force of voice upon some one
syllable of a word; as,
Col'o-ny, bot'a-ny; re-mem'ber, im-por'tant; rec-ol-lect', rep-re-sent'.
In the words col'o-ny and bot'a-ny, the first syllable is accented. In the