Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... heart and a glad countenance , he eagerly en- tered his mother's room early in the morning before breakfast . SYNTHESIS OF SIMPLE SENTENCES . Synthesis is the process of combining separate state- ments into a single sentence . The ...
... heart and a glad countenance , he eagerly en- tered his mother's room early in the morning before breakfast . SYNTHESIS OF SIMPLE SENTENCES . Synthesis is the process of combining separate state- ments into a single sentence . The ...
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... hearts trembled . " When brave hearts trembled " is an adjective clause , introduced by the conjunctive adverb " when , " and modi- fying the noun " time . " The hate which we all bear with the most Christian pa- tience , is the hate of ...
... hearts trembled . " When brave hearts trembled " is an adjective clause , introduced by the conjunctive adverb " when , " and modi- fying the noun " time . " The hate which we all bear with the most Christian pa- tience , is the hate of ...
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... hearts often leave them better fitted for life's realities . 9. Cats that wear gloves catch no mice . 10. I have something that will suit you . 11. There are times when every active mind feels itself above any and all human books . 12 ...
... hearts often leave them better fitted for life's realities . 9. Cats that wear gloves catch no mice . 10. I have something that will suit you . 11. There are times when every active mind feels itself above any and all human books . 12 ...
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... heart be also . " Where your treasure is " is an adverbial clause of place , introduced by the conjunctive adverb " where . " EXERCISE VI . DIRECTION . - Classify the adverbial clauses in the following sentences , and tell what they ...
... heart be also . " Where your treasure is " is an adverbial clause of place , introduced by the conjunctive adverb " where . " EXERCISE VI . DIRECTION . - Classify the adverbial clauses in the following sentences , and tell what they ...
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... hearts . They pre- pare for it by banishing all joyousness from their countenances . 7. The natives of Virginia seized on a quantity of gunpowder . It was their first seizure of gunpowder . They sowed it for grain . They expected to ...
... hearts . They pre- pare for it by banishing all joyousness from their countenances . 7. The natives of Virginia seized on a quantity of gunpowder . It was their first seizure of gunpowder . They sowed it for grain . They expected to ...
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acatalectic accented adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful called capital comma complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction connected Dactylic Dimeter DIRECTION discourse earth English exclamation EXERCISE expression eyes feet flowers following examples following sentences foot Four lines give reasons hath heart heaven Heptameter hope iambic pentameter iambic trimeter Inchcape Rock interrogation kind king language letter light live look Lord marks meaning meter Metonymy mind Monometer nature never night noun o'er object paragraph PARAPHRASE parenthesis persons phrases poem poetry praise pronoun proposition prose punctuation quatrains quotation rhetorical rhyming alternately RULE sense simple sentences snow sometimes song soul sound speech spondee stanza statement stood style sublime sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee Themistocles things thou thought tion Trimeter trochaic trochee truth unaccented Uncle John verb verse voice wind words writing