Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... words and phrases ; for , if another proposi- tion , either subordinate or independent , be introduced , the ... word in the succeeding clause . Such clauses are subordinate , or dependent , and sentences containing such clauses ...
... words and phrases ; for , if another proposi- tion , either subordinate or independent , be introduced , the ... word in the succeeding clause . Such clauses are subordinate , or dependent , and sentences containing such clauses ...
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... words and phrases , even the simple sentence may be long and difficult , and may express much . Words introduced as modifiers are : ( 1 ) Adjectives ; as , " Honest men can speak for them- selves . " ( 2 ) Adverbs ; as , " The house ...
... words and phrases , even the simple sentence may be long and difficult , and may express much . Words introduced as modifiers are : ( 1 ) Adjectives ; as , " Honest men can speak for them- selves . " ( 2 ) Adverbs ; as , " The house ...
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... word of a prepositional phrase ; as , " By taking pains , you will succeed . " ( 5 ) The principal word in a phrase used as a comple- ment ; as , " Excuse my answering your question . " ( 6 ) It may be independent ; as , " Confessing ...
... word of a prepositional phrase ; as , " By taking pains , you will succeed . " ( 5 ) The principal word in a phrase used as a comple- ment ; as , " Excuse my answering your question . " ( 6 ) It may be independent ; as , " Confessing ...
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... word . It may consist of the name of a person or thing spoken of in exclamatory phrases ; as , " O their dreadful end ... words or phrases ; as , " O , pardon me , thou bleeding piece of earth . " DIRECTION . - Write sentences ...
... word . It may consist of the name of a person or thing spoken of in exclamatory phrases ; as , " O their dreadful end ... words or phrases ; as , " O , pardon me , thou bleeding piece of earth . " DIRECTION . - Write sentences ...
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... 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 the subject . Statement 5 adds the words ...
... 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 the subject . Statement 5 adds the words ...
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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