SENTENCES FOR PRACTICE
Sentences like the following may be read with great advantage, for the purpose of acquiring distinctness and precision in articulation.
This act, more than all other acts, laid the ax at the root of the evil.
It is false to say he had no other faults.
The hosts still stand in strangest plight. That last still night. That lasts till night. On either side an ocean exists. On neither side a notion exists. Among the rugged rocks the restless ranger ran. I said pop-u-lar, not pop'lar. I said pre-vail, not pr'vail. I said be-hold, not b'hold.
Think'st thou so meanly of my Phocion? Henceforth look to your hearths. Canst thou minister to a mind diseased? A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy call.