Exercises

Verbs of Speaking

Compose sentences to bring out the difference between whispering and whining.

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Verbs of Speaking

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‘And that reminds me of the story...’ A positively professorial red-and-green macaw (ara chloropterus) in Rhodes, Greece, warming to his theme. See The Birds for a plot summary of Aristophanes’s famous comedy about the time when birds helped two fed-up Athenians escape the pointless politics of their city..

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© Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

‘And that reminds me of the story...’ A positively professorial red-and-green macaw (ara chloropterus) in Rhodes, Greece, warming to his theme. See The Birds for a plot summary of Aristophanes’s famous comedy about the time when birds helped two fed-up Athenians escape the pointless politics of their city..

Introduction

The words below are all commonly used to refer to speaking, and especially the manner of speaking — whether speech is gentle or soft, loud or quiet, with anger or tenderness. Use each word in a sentence, in such a way as to make its meaning clear.

The words in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 112 common words.

1. Interpose. 2. Order. 3. Cross-examine. 4. Reply. 5. Cry. 6. Tut-tut. 7. Howl. 8. Retort. 9. Squeak.

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