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- Greg Malivuk
- gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- There’s a “unit” of English pronunciation between words and sentences.
- 1 individual sounds /i/, /ə/, /ð/, /θ/, etc.
- 2 syllables
- 3 words
- 4 thought groups
- 5 sentences
- Thought groups are complete phrases that can go together to make a sentence.
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- We. Do. Not. Speak. Word. By. Word.
- (Someone who separates words like this sounds angry.)
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- Different divisions of thought groups can change the meaning. (Between thought groups there is often a very short pause.)
- a) 7-week-long vacations
- b) 7 / week-long vacations (The / means we divide thought groups. It’s not punctuation.)
- a = vacations that last 7 weeks
- b = seven vacations that are each 1 week
- twenty-five-year-old newspapers = some newspapers that are from 1994
- twenty / five-year-old newspapers = 20 newspapers from 2014
- twenty-five / year-old newspapers = 25 newspapers from last year
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- p. 73 exercise 1A - Do you hear one thought group or two? What are the different meanings?
- Please call me Ben. = My full name is Benjamin but I prefer “Ben”.
- Please call me, Ben. = I’m talking to Ben, and I would like him to call me.
- Please call me. - Ben = You’re reading a note Ben left. He wants you to call him.
- Who’s hiring Julia? = Someone is hiring Julia, and I want to know who.
- Who’s hiring, Julia? = Someone is hiring, and I’m asking Julia who that is.
- Who’s hiring? Julia? = I want to know who’s hiring. I think it might be Julia.
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- Let’s eat, Grandma! = I’m inviting my grandmother to eat with me.
- Let’s eat Grandma! = I’m inviting other family members to eat our grandmother.
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- Sometimes commas don’t help. You need to hear it to understand.
- We invited the rhinoceros, Washington, and Lincoln.
- - If this is a list (rhino + Washington + Lincoln), the tone goes up, up, and down.
- - If “Washington” is the name if the rhino, it is in a lower tone than the other two.
- We invited the rhinoceros, Washington and Lincoln.
- - Without the final comma, this is a list written by someone who doesn’t use the Oxford comma.
- We invited the rhinos, Washintgon and Lincoln.
- - If this is a list (rhinos + Washington + Lincoln), the tone goes up, up, and down.
- - If Washington and Lincoln are the name of the rhinos, then they’re both in a lower tone (up-down)
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- The Oxford (or serial) comma is the comma before “and” or “or” in a list of three or more items.
- It’s a “controversial” topic.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
- - In your writing, just make sure to be consistent.
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