The phrase "a proper speech" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a speech that is appropriate, suitable, or well-structured for a particular context or audience.
Example: "Before the event, she practiced diligently to ensure she would deliver a proper speech that would engage the audience."
Alternatives: "an appropriate speech" or "a suitable speech".
"If you have to make a proper speech and take interventions, you have to be able to defend your case much better".
The fact that Cameron can't even be bothered to make a proper speech shows the government has missed yet another open goal".
After last year's debate on parliamentary allowances, he telephoned me to express delighted surprise that John Selwyn Gummer had made what he called "a proper speech".
Start research on your position early so that you are adequately prepare to write a proper speech.
As Cortana is not available in all languages, it is necessary that we set a proper Speech Language to enable and use Cortana.
"The language has shifted since before the election in a very, very dramatic way," says Zac Goldsmith, a Tory MP once encouraged by Mr Cameron to act as his party's green conscience.As prime minister, Mr Cameron has not made a single proper speech on the environment.
They will not hesitate to help a foreigner learn proper speech and pronunciation, and are willing to throw in a few words to add to a learner's vocabulary.
I was astonished to see page after page of graphic representations of black African people as sub-human monkey people, bowing before a white teenager, worshipping his dog as a god and incapable of proper speech.
But "The Makeover," a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" production on Sunday at 9 p.m. on ABC, retains the bone structure of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," in which a professor of phonetics wagers that he can train a Cockney flower girl to pass as a duchess by way of proper speech and manners.
But instead of being allowed to make a proper acceptance speech, she was given the task of introducing Beyonc?
I've spent much of the last year writing a book about technology and language and, today, the debate around what constitutes "proper" speech and writing is livelier than ever, courtesy of a transition every bit as significant (at least so far as language is concerned) as the Industrial Revolution.
