21. In prose, which syllables receive emphasis within a string of monosyllables can be very open. 22. A subdued Fuhrman answered a series of questions from the judge and the prosecutor in monosyllables Wednesday afternoon. 23. It's the kind of musical speech in which monosyllables roll off the tongue like unctuous morsels. 24. Only a few irregular verbs of more than one syllable cannot be analyzed as prefixed compounds of monosyllables . 25. In both corpora there were many more monosyllables / single glyphs in running text than in the lexicon. 26. A handy monosyllable , descended unchanged from Old English, and before that from long-dead Germanic predecessors. 27. In West Slavic, esp . in Czech, a number of originally short vowels in monosyllables are lengthened. 28. "Sweet Afton " contains a lot of monosyllables , which contribute to a gentle, soothing rhythm. 29. Some scholars attribute the monosyllable closing line of the poem as a tribute to 16th century poet, George Gascoigne. 30. After practice, Parinya sits impatiently for an interview, flipping through a comic book and answering questions in shy monosyllables .