REMARK.--When the emphasis on these words or members is not marked, they
take the rising inflection, according to Rule IX.

EXAMPLES.

They are the offspring of restlessness', vanity', and idleness'.
Love', hope', and joy' took possession of his breast.

5. When words which naturally take the rising inflection become emphatic
by repetition or any other cause, they often take the falling inflection.

Exception to the Rule.--While the tendency of emphasis is decidedly to the
use of the falling inflection, sometimes a word to which the falling
inflection naturally belongs changes this, when it is emphatic, for the
rising inflection.

EXAMPLES.

Three thousand ducats': 't is a good round sum'.
It is useless to point out the beauties of nature to one who is blind'.

Here sum and blind, according to Rule VI, would take the falling
inflection, but as they are emphatic, and the object of emphasis is to
draw attention to the word emphasized, this is here accomplished in part
by giving an unusual inflection. Some speakers would give these words the
circumflex, but it would he the rising circumflex, so that the sound would
still terminate with the rising inflection.

RULE VIII.--Questions which can not be answered by yes or no, together