Read the text and underline reduction

Read the text and underline reduction.

The train stopped at a small station. A passenger looked out of the window and saw a woman who was selling sandwiches. The gentleman wanted to buy a sandwich. The woman was standing rather far from the carriage. The gentleman did not want to go for the sandwich himself so he called a little boy who was talking on the platform near the carriage and asked him how much a sandwich cost. “Three pence, sir”, answered the boy. The gentleman gave him six pcnce and said: “Bring me a sandwich and with the other three pence buy one for yourself’. Some minutes later the boy returned. He was eating a sandwich. He gave the gentleman three pence change and said: “There was only one sandwich”

Answer to the tests

1. Find the line of the words with soft reduction:

a) pity, student, curtain

b) city, indefinite, record

c) cotton, mountain, village

2. Find the line of the words with hard reduction:

a) summer, climate, potato

b) Sunday, perhaps, suppose

c) adopt, compose, compulsory