PHRASING AND BLENDING

Each language has its own music with

characteristic cadence rhythm and inflection and
if an adult is to learn to speak a new language
correctly he must give full value to these peculiar
qualities It is as if he were learning to play a
musical instrument.
 Each language has its own music /with
characteristic / cadence / rhythm / and inflection/
and if an adult is to learn to speak a new language
correctly / he must give full value to these peculiar
qualities // It is as if he were learning to play a
musical instrument.//
 Each language has its own music; with
characteristic, cadence, rhythm, and inflection,
and if an adult is to learn to speak a new language
correctly, he must give full value to these peculiar
qualities. It is as if he were learning to play a
musical instrument.
PHRASING

-refers to the manner in which

the sentences are divided into
smaller units and marked by
rhythm pauses.
PHRASING

• Sometimes called the oral punctuation because

in the oral speech, sentences are divided into
logical units that reinforce the meaning of the
most important parts within sentences.
 It is also a thought group consists of words
that are pronounced together to be able to
express a thought or an idea. Rhythm units
are shorter combinations within the thought
groups that are pronounced in a a single
breath stream.
A pause accomplishes three things:
• It enables the speaker to catch his
breath
• It is a means to deliver a message
clearly
• It may emphasize the point being
made
• A single bar (/) is used to mark a rhythm
pause.
• A double bar (//) marks the end of a
thought group.
EXAMPLES:

• When things go wrong/ it becomes

easy to give up/ to blame other people/
and to do nothing.//

• When our vision is dim/help us to

see.//
 I AM WORRIED

O, Lord, I am worried. I know that it does me no good to worry, but I cannot shake it off.
It not only does no good to worry, it does harm. What I cannot change, I cannot change. But
meanwhile, if I am caught up in worry , I’m apt to do poorly what I could do well.
Help me to trust to you those concerns beyond my reach so that I may give my full attention
to living each moment as it comes.
BLENDING
• -It is saying the words in phrase as if
they were one word.
• In blending, the final consonant sound
of a word is blended with the initial
vowel sound of the next word.
• the apple
ham and egg
• the organ
tea or coffee
• the aunt
do or die
• tell him
bought them
• see you honey or lemon
• Is it you they’re talking about?
• Tell her about the architect.
• Give it to him.
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• It’s a do or die situation.