0187 – Phrase Markings: A Practical

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2021.07.06-0187 – Phrase Markings: A Practical

So you could spit a sentence into phrases, or cluster phrases with an elongated circle or bunch the words together by-hyphenating-them.

Marking up your script in this way shows you at a glance that everything within the oblong has to be said as a complete thought. It’s less often used than some other mark-ups, and difficult to show in print but you can perhaps see how it may be useful in a situation such as these.

It’s back! It’s big! It’ll save you money! Stewart’s Big Holiday Weekend Sale!

As I say the hyphen can be used in a similar way: that several words are linked and need to be clustered in their delivery: “record-of-the-week”, “deal-of-the-day” and so on.

Another example might be in a slightly unusual name or title: “The announcement by the BBC Director-General” or “the video recorded by Donald Trump-Junior”. Without the guiding hyphen you may drop your voice on Director or Trump and then find it awkward to complete the phrase with assurance.

The court heard that the retired vet had kept thirteen cats, seven hamsters, four chinchillas and a tortoisein her one-bedroom apartment.

In the first example, you may be directed to say the {whole phrase} with the same intensity, speed and tone, and having the words groups together like this will signify that to you. In the second example, putting the animals together and reading them as a list gives perhaps greater irony to the story.

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