Enumeraton

Enumeration is represented in sentences with homogeneous members. Each enumerated word is stressed and requires a separate sense-group pronounced with the Rise, the last enumerated word is pronounced with the Fall.

e.g. He got up early, ate his usual breakfast, read his morning paper, and left for the city.

Since the falling tone carries more conviction than the rising tone, the use of the fall makes the utterance more expressive. Pronounced with the falling tone, enumeration sounds more emphatic.

Practice:

1. You are learning to speak, to understand, to read and to write English.

2. His voice was musical, soft and lulling.

3. London bridge, built of stone was a remarkable achievement. Shops, houses and a chapel were

built on the bridge.

4. The visitor was the most astonishing contrast to the tall, thin, grey-haired, neatly-dressed scientist

5. It was a dark, gloomy, forbidding house.

6. There are camps, camping sites, hostels and tourist centers for young travellers.

7. I’ll toss up a snowball, and make him look out, and then say a kind word to him.

8. Hair, clothing and jewelry all send messages to a prospective employer.

9. The university sent us catalogues, maps, housing applications and other information.

10. We used to go out, walk around the town, meet our friends and live happily.