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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Homework: Try to find another English sentence where changing the stress or thought groups can make the meaning completely different. (You might find it as an example of the importance of punctuation. Just make sure you can pronounce both versions.)
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- Most of the time, travelers worry about their luggage.
- Most of the time-travelers worry about their luggage.
- Rachael Ray finds inspiration in cooking, her family(,) and her dog.
- Rachael Ray finds inspiration in cooking her family and her dog.
- The country was very green and gentle. (A/The) Man was walking.
- The country was very green and (a/the) gentleman was walking.
- Call me, Crazy! - I want someone (who I’m naming “Crazy”) to call me.
- Call me crazy. - I want someone to tell me that I’m crazy.
- We are going to learn to cut and paste, kids. (Talking to kids.)
- We are going to learn to cut and paste kids. (Talking about cutting and pasting children.)
- “John,” said the boss, “is absent.” (The boss spoke.)
- John said, “The boss is absent.” (John spoke, and these are his exact words.)
- John said (that) the boss is absent. (John spoke, and this is the reported information.)
- Excuse, not punish.
- Excuse not, punish. (This one is strange in English because the usual sentence would be “Don’t excuse”, not “Excuse not.”)
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- Multilingual joke:
- Where do cat’s go after they die?
- English: Purr-gatory (The name for the place is “purgatory”)
- Spanish: Pur-gato-rio
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- Handout - With your partner, divide 1, 2, and 3 into thought groups. Then underline the word in each thought group that you think should get the most stress. Practice pronouncing the sentences.
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- down payment = the money you have to pay at the moment you buy a house or car, even if you have several years to pay off the rest (because you got a loan to pay for it)
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- Listen to the other pairs pronounce their paragraphs and mark where you hear thought groups.
- “payment plan” is a compound noun and should be pronounced together
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- Some groups of words will be their own thought group regardless of register (level of formality) or context. Other groups may be one or more thought groups, depending on those things.
- By this time next year, I’ll have put away (/) enough cash (/) for a down payment.
- Dependent phrases are almost always whole thought groups.
- Long independent clauses can be divided differently depending on speed.
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