Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... comma The semicolon The colon The apostrophe The hyphen The interrogation point ? The exclamation point The quotation marks The dash The parenthesis The caret 6699 ! ( ) 1 * * NOTE . - The rules for the punctuation of the simple ...
... comma The semicolon The colon The apostrophe The hyphen The interrogation point ? The exclamation point The quotation marks The dash The parenthesis The caret 6699 ! ( ) 1 * * NOTE . - The rules for the punctuation of the simple ...
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... comma . Terminal marks are the marks placed at the end of sen- tences . They are the period , the interrogation point , and the exclamation point . RULE I. - Every sentence not interrogative or exclamatory must be followed by a period ...
... comma . Terminal marks are the marks placed at the end of sen- tences . They are the period , the interrogation point , and the exclamation point . RULE I. - Every sentence not interrogative or exclamatory must be followed by a period ...
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... COMMA . 66 RULE I. - Nouns in apposition , when accompanied by mod- ifying words or phrases , are separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma , or by commas ; as , Washington , the first President , was a Virginian " ; " Collins ...
... COMMA . 66 RULE I. - Nouns in apposition , when accompanied by mod- ifying words or phrases , are separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma , or by commas ; as , Washington , the first President , was a Virginian " ; " Collins ...
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... comma ; as , " The sun , the moon , the planets , the stars , are all in motion . " An element indicat- ing a common reference or dependence upon each word of the series is sep- arated by a comma ; as , ' Charity beareth , believeth ...
... comma ; as , " The sun , the moon , the planets , the stars , are all in motion . " An element indicat- ing a common reference or dependence upon each word of the series is sep- arated by a comma ; as , ' Charity beareth , believeth ...
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... comma , unless the connective is omitted ; as , " The South produces sugar and cotton " ; " The lofty and rugged Andes traverse South America " ; " Slowly , sadly we laid him down . " * EXERCISE LXXXVI . DIRECTION . - Punctuate the ...
... comma , unless the connective is omitted ; as , " The South produces sugar and cotton " ; " The lofty and rugged Andes traverse South America " ; " Slowly , sadly we laid him down . " * EXERCISE LXXXVI . DIRECTION . - Punctuate the ...
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acatalectic accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called comma complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected Dactylic dependent clause Dimeter DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet flowers following sentences give hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic iambic pentameter Inchcape Inchcape Rock interrogation kind king language letter light live look Lord meaning meter Metonymy mind modifies Monometer nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poem poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme RULE sail Saxon sense simple sentences snow sometimes soul sound speak stanza statement style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer