Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... verb meaning to speak , is the science that discusses the means whereby thoughts may be forcibly presented . Aristotle , the oldest writer on the subject , defines rhetoric as " the faculty of perceiving all the possible means of ...
... verb meaning to speak , is the science that discusses the means whereby thoughts may be forcibly presented . Aristotle , the oldest writer on the subject , defines rhetoric as " the faculty of perceiving all the possible means of ...
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... adverbi- ally and become : ( 1 ) An indirect object ; as , " Give John the book " ; or ( 2 ) A noun of measure , direction , or time ; as , " He sat an hour . " An infinitive phrase , " to " with its verb THE SIMPLE SENTENCE . II.
... adverbi- ally and become : ( 1 ) An indirect object ; as , " Give John the book " ; or ( 2 ) A noun of measure , direction , or time ; as , " He sat an hour . " An infinitive phrase , " to " with its verb THE SIMPLE SENTENCE . II.
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... verb , may be brought into the sentence , and become : ( 1 ) A subject ; as , " To forget an injury is noble . " ( 2 ) A complement ; as , " The duty is to act " ; " He told me to go home " ; " The doctor bade the man ( to ) walk ...
... verb , may be brought into the sentence , and become : ( 1 ) A subject ; as , " To forget an injury is noble . " ( 2 ) A complement ; as , " The duty is to act " ; " He told me to go home " ; " The doctor bade the man ( to ) walk ...
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... verb , and the effect is unpleasant . By distribut- ing the phrases , the 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 ...
... verb , and the effect is unpleasant . By distribut- ing the phrases , the 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 ...
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... verb , and made emphatic by its separation , “ who " or " which " should be used instead . Abbott illustrates this objectionable use of " that " by the sentence , “ There are many persons that , though unscrupulous , are commonly good ...
... verb , and made emphatic by its separation , “ who " or " which " should be used instead . Abbott illustrates this objectionable use of " that " by the sentence , “ There are many persons that , though unscrupulous , are commonly good ...
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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