Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... sounds the charge . walks rapidly over the hot desert . DIRECTION . - Supply appropriate predicates , so as to make complete simple sentences . Thus : King John of France . triumph through the streets of London . A child eighteen months ...
... sounds the charge . walks rapidly over the hot desert . DIRECTION . - Supply appropriate predicates , so as to make complete simple sentences . Thus : King John of France . triumph through the streets of London . A child eighteen months ...
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... sound . 2. In prayer you will find that a state of mind is generated which will shed a holy influence over the whole character . 3. In days long ago , when birds and flowers and trees could talk , in a country far over the sea , there ...
... sound . 2. In prayer you will find that a state of mind is generated which will shed a holy influence over the whole character . 3. In days long ago , when birds and flowers and trees could talk , in a country far over the sea , there ...
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... sound beating . He gave him the beating forthwith . By means of the beating Cellini might better remember the unique prod- igy . Cellini tells us this . 3. A youthful angel comes to us . At his coming , we are as yet small children . At ...
... sound beating . He gave him the beating forthwith . By means of the beating Cellini might better remember the unique prod- igy . Cellini tells us this . 3. A youthful angel comes to us . At his coming , we are as yet small children . At ...
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... sound fell upon the ear . That sound was the steady step of the camel . Its feet were crunching through the hard crust . We passed through long stretches of soft sand . Then even the sound of the steady step seemed muffled . The broad ...
... sound fell upon the ear . That sound was the steady step of the camel . Its feet were crunching through the hard crust . We passed through long stretches of soft sand . Then even the sound of the steady step seemed muffled . The broad ...
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... capering if they heard the sound of a fiddle . 20. The Mohammedan lives as the Koran directs . 21. He prayed that he might be speedily succored . EXERCISE XX . DIRECTION . - Change each dependent clause TRANSFORMATION OF ELEMENTS . 57.
... capering if they heard the sound of a fiddle . 20. The Mohammedan lives as the Koran directs . 21. He prayed that he might be speedily succored . EXERCISE XX . DIRECTION . - Change each dependent clause TRANSFORMATION OF ELEMENTS . 57.
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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