In the following exercises indicate where and what kind of pauses you would naturally have:

Woman without her man is a brute

Speech is a jewel silence must form its setting

Silas Marner decided to keep the child who was frozen one evening outside his house in the snow

We will hang together or we will hang separately

Pausing is to speaking what shading is to drawing

The perfection of art is to conceal art

Henry wrote the book

What do you think I’ll shave you for nothing and give you plenty to eat and something to drink

Study of the Importance of Tone