In No.

7 quite a large fraction of a measure precedes the first accent (at the beginning of the full measure).
Examine, also, all the preceding examples, and note the different accented or unaccented locations of the first tone, in each figure and motive.
When a figure or motive starts at the accented beat, it begins, so to speak, in the right place; _any tone or tones which precede the accent are merely preliminary or introductory tones_.

While they are very desirable and necessary, in the fulfilment of certain purposes, they are not an _essential_ part of the motive; they appear to represent the ornamental rather than the stable element of the melodic sentence, and their employment is therefore a matter of option and taste rather than of absolute necessity.

The accent indicates the point where the body of the motive begins; the accent is the point where the stake is driven; all that goes before is simply preparatory,--the changeable material which flutters about the fixed center.

Therefore the preliminary tones do not indicate the _essential_ or actual beginning of the motive, but its apparent or conditional beginning only; or what might be called its _melodic_ beginning.