Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... statement may be more neatly ex- pressed ; thus , For three months , they were imprisoned in the town of Clinch in an old stone house , etc .; or , They were , for three months , imprisoned in the town of Clinch in an old stone house ...
... statement may be more neatly ex- pressed ; thus , For three months , they were imprisoned in the town of Clinch in an old stone house , etc .; or , They were , for three months , imprisoned in the town of Clinch in an old stone house ...
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... Statements . 4. He was a citizen of Genoa . 5. Genoa was a little republic . 6. He made his appearance in the ... Statement I is the principal proposition , or skeleton sentence . Rhetorical analysis , the opposite of synthesis ...
... Statements . 4. He was a citizen of Genoa . 5. Genoa was a little republic . 6. He made his appearance in the ... Statement I is the principal proposition , or skeleton sentence . Rhetorical analysis , the opposite of synthesis ...
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... Statement 2 contributes the single word " successively . " Statement 3 furnishes the adjective phrase " in the south and west of Europe . " Statement 4 adds the phrase " a citizen of Genoa " ; this phrase is put in appo- sition with ...
... Statement 2 contributes the single word " successively . " Statement 3 furnishes the adjective phrase " in the south and west of Europe . " Statement 4 adds the phrase " a citizen of Genoa " ; this phrase is put in appo- sition with ...
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... statement by a relative pronoun or by a conjunctive adverb , as " where , " " when , " " why " ; thus , He prayed for those whose love had been his shield . " Whose love had been his shield " is an adjective clause , connected with the ...
... statement by a relative pronoun or by a conjunctive adverb , as " where , " " when , " " why " ; thus , He prayed for those whose love had been his shield . " Whose love had been his shield " is an adjective clause , connected with the ...
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... statement by a subordinate conjunction or by a conjunctive adverb . The subordinate conjunctions most frequently used to introduce adverbial clauses are : if since though than as whether unless for that reason as if except that because ...
... statement by a subordinate conjunction or by a conjunctive adverb . The subordinate conjunctions most frequently used to introduce adverbial clauses are : if since though than as whether unless for that reason as if except that because ...
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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