Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... common . The com- mon was for the village geese . The white feathers of the geese lay scattered over its green surface . They were scattered there in the summer season . II . It is a sad thing to be born a sneaking fellow . It is much ...
... common . The com- mon was for the village geese . The white feathers of the geese lay scattered over its green surface . They were scattered there in the summer season . II . It is a sad thing to be born a sneaking fellow . It is much ...
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... common accounts it came thus . At this time Lord Arlington and Lord Ossory brought over a small quantity . A pound of tea then sold for sixty shillings . The custom of drinking tea became fashionable . 6. Ten years afterwards coffee as ...
... common accounts it came thus . At this time Lord Arlington and Lord Ossory brought over a small quantity . A pound of tea then sold for sixty shillings . The custom of drinking tea became fashionable . 6. Ten years afterwards coffee as ...
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... . No mistake is more common than the confusion of these parts of the verb , so frequently the same , and yet in many instances different . Correct the errors in the use of the past tense 80 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC .
... . No mistake is more common than the confusion of these parts of the verb , so frequently the same , and yet in many instances different . Correct the errors in the use of the past tense 80 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC .
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... common use , and may now be employed with freedom . It is not easy to tell just where to draw the line ; but where there is doubt as to whether a word will be under- stood , it is a safe rule to employ some other , or even a ...
... common use , and may now be employed with freedom . It is not easy to tell just where to draw the line ; but where there is doubt as to whether a word will be under- stood , it is a safe rule to employ some other , or even a ...
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... common , but it has not the sanction of good writers . Herbert is quoted as authority for using " got " in this sense : " He has got the face of a man , " but even here we note not so much the expression of simple posses- sion as the ...
... common , but it has not the sanction of good writers . Herbert is quoted as authority for using " got " in this sense : " He has got the face of a man , " but even here we note not so much the expression of simple posses- sion as the ...
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accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected dependent clause DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet figure flowers following sentences give hand hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic pentameter idea Inchcape Inchcape Rock kind King language light live look Lord meaning metaphor Metonymy mind modifies nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme Richard Penderell RULE sail Saxon sense simile simple sentence snow sometimes soul sound speak speech statement stood style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees Trimeter trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer