[Footnote 1: These questions and similar ones, with their answers, should
be repeatedly pronounced with their proper inflection, until the
distinction between the rising and falling inflection is well understood
and easily made by the learner. He will be assisted in this by
emphasizing strongly the word which receives the inflection, thus. Did
you RIDE' or did you WALK'?]

In the following examples, the inflections are used in a contrary order,
the first member terminating with the falling and the second with the
rising inflection:

EXAMPLES.

He is well', not sick'.
I said value', not valor'.
I said statue', not statute'.
He acted properly', not improperly'.


FALLING INFLECTIONS.

Rule VI.--The falling inflection is generally proper wherever the sense is
complete.

EXAMPLES.

Truth is more wonderful than fiction'.
Men generally die as they live'.
By industry we obtain wealth'.