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THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES  \nOF EFFECTIVE ORAL  \nEXPRESSION  \nBY  \nEsTELLE B.HU NTER,PH.B.  \nLESSON THIRTEEN  \nTHE BETTER-SPEECH INSTITUTE  \nOF AMERICA  \n180 North Michigan Avenue,Chicago,U.S.A.  \nCONTENTS  \nPage  \nPuNCTUATION.  \nThe Period  \nTo End a SentenceTo Indicate AbbreviationsTo Indicate Omissions  \nThe Comma  \nThe Comma and the SeriesThe Comma and AndThe Comma and the Clause  \nNecessary and Unnecessary Word Groups“Aside”Modifiers  \nELIMINATION OF SPEECH FAULTS ..  \n.·.ll  \nSpeech Faults  \nMyself and wifeEvery once in a whileHave a dateWell postedThink forEvery confidenceAs I know ofA tasty dresserEnthuseHear to  \nENUNCIATION ..  \n....14  \nEnunciation Exercise 13-A  \nEnunciation Exercise 13-B  \nPRONUNCIATION  \n...15  \nPronunciation Exercise 13-A  \nVoCABULARY DEVELOPMENT........17EFFECTIVE ExPRESSION:ARGUMENTATION ...21IntroductionBodyConclusion  \nAn Informal ArgumentRelative Value of Proof  \nTHE BETTER-ENGLISH INSTITUTE OF AMERICA  \n1930  \nCHICAGO  \n1933 and 1935  \nCHICAGO  \nTHE BETTER-SPEECH INSTITUTE OF AMERICA  \n# PRACTICAL ENGLISHAND EFFECTIVE SPEECH\n\nLESSON THIRTEENPUNCTUATION  \nWHEN we express our thoughts aloud,we divide ourwords into groups in order that our listeners may per-ceive our meaning.We keep together small groups ofwords by saying them all in one breath,as,for example,“a beauti-ful evening.”We do not say“a beautiful(pause)evening,”because that would destroy the idea we desire to convey.Wepause only when we wish to separate ideas,as indicated in thefollowing sentences:“English is an important subject.(Pause)It should be constantly studied.\"Here we have two ideas.Weseparate them by stopping at the end of the first.  \nWhen it is called to our attention,all of us recognize thatfailure to pause in the right spot may utterly destroy the effective-ness of what we are saying.For example,if you read,\"He hada little feebly(pause)growing down on his chin,\"you wouldwonder what in the world a feebly could be.Probably your firstreaction would be,“Heavens!A feebly must be very disfiguring!”Read without the pause,however,the sentence conveys quite adifferent picture:\"He had a little feebly growing down on hischin”—that is,an incipient beard!Now we see at once thatfeebly belongs with growing.  \nWhen you were in school,you probably had the importanceof pauses illustrated by a series of amusing sentences of this kind.One of the classic examples is,“That that is is that that is not isnot.\"Only pauses can make sense of what appears to be gibberish:“That that is(pause)is(pause)that that is not(pause)is not.”  \nOf course,the pause is not the only method we have of em-phasizing our ideas when we are speaking.We also use inflection,facial expression,and gesture.But none of these ways is availablewhen we wish to express our ideas in writing;hence we mustsubstitute for them an arbitrary set of symbols which we know assigns of punctuation.Before we discuss the individual punctua-tion marks,let us consider two sentences:  \n1.Farther inthe woods were denser.  \n2.Farther in the woodswere denser pines andunderbrush.  \n1.In the first sentence we have a statement expressed in writ-ing..The space indicates that the words farther in belong together,and that the words the woods were denser belong together.Theseparation of these two groups indicates a pause.  \n2.In the second sentence,the first group is comprised of fourwords:farther in the woods.The second group contains fivewords:were denser pines and underbrush.Again the two groupsare separated by a space indicating a pause.  \nIndicating pauses by space looks queer to us,because we arenot used to this method of showing thought arrangement.As amatter of fact,this system might have been adopted instead ofsome of the punctuation marks we are about to study,although itwould require a great deal of paper.  \nAs you study the following 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