Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... predicate ; but an indefinite number of words and phrases may be brought into the sentence , and grouped about the subject and the predicate as modifiers of these elements . The subject and the predicate can be enlarged only by ( 9 ) ...
... predicate ; but an indefinite number of words and phrases may be brought into the sentence , and grouped about the subject and the predicate as modifiers of these elements . The subject and the predicate can be enlarged only by ( 9 ) ...
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... predicate , it is restricted to a single proposition , and is , therefore , simple . When I had read the papers , I returned them . What was expressed in the first sentence by means of the phrase " after reading the papers , " is in the ...
... predicate , it is restricted to a single proposition , and is , therefore , simple . When I had read the papers , I returned them . What was expressed in the first sentence by means of the phrase " after reading the papers , " is in the ...
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... predicates , so as to make complete simple sentences . Thus : King John of France . triumph through the streets of London . A child eighteen months old . . The President of the United States Two honest tradesmen . . King John of France ...
... predicates , so as to make complete simple sentences . Thus : King John of France . triumph through the streets of London . A child eighteen months old . . The President of the United States Two honest tradesmen . . King John of France ...
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... predicate , and every proposition contains a subject and a predicate , hence , inde- pendent propositions are likewise clauses ; but , as subordi- nate propositions perform merely the functions of adjectives , or adverbs , or nouns , we ...
... predicate , and every proposition contains a subject and a predicate , hence , inde- pendent propositions are likewise clauses ; but , as subordi- nate propositions perform merely the functions of adjectives , or adverbs , or nouns , we ...
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... predicate " shall leave home in a week . " Expect nothing , lest you be disappointed . " Lest you be disappointed " is an adverbial clause ex- pressing result , introduced by the subordinate conjunction " lest . " Corruption wins not ...
... predicate " shall leave home in a week . " Expect nothing , lest you be disappointed . " Lest you be disappointed " is an adverbial clause ex- pressing result , introduced by the subordinate conjunction " lest . " Corruption wins not ...
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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