Alice has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | "Doorbell," said Alice. "Mary, could you see who it is?" Mary gestured frantically to Alice to be quiet. "It's Tom!" she whispered. Alice's voice likewise fell to a whisper. "We'll pretend we're not here!" "But our car and bikes are in the drive. He knows we're in." | |
| 2. | Tom likes Mary, but Mary likes John. To make matters even more interesting, John likes Alice, but Alice likes Tom. | |
| 3. | Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' | |
| 4. | Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" | |
| 5. | There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural;) but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. | |
| 6. | Four children are in a race. Mary is 2 metres ahead of Tom. John is 5 metres behind Alice. Tom is 3 metres behind Alice. Write the names of the runners in order, starting with the child who is furthest ahead. | |
| 7. | Johnny proposed to Alice and she accepted. | |
| 8. | Jack, Jill and Alice went up the hill. | |
| 9. | Alice has a flower on her head. | |
| 10. | Alice slid down the long slide. |