Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... conjunction it is sometimes unadvisable to use " that " as a relative . Example : " There is the horse that I said that I regretted that I had bought . " 3. To avoid ending a sentence with a preposition , it is often necessary to place ...
... conjunction it is sometimes unadvisable to use " that " as a relative . Example : " There is the horse that I said that I regretted that I had bought . " 3. To avoid ending a sentence with a preposition , it is often necessary to place ...
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... 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 lest for notwithstanding ...
... 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 lest for notwithstanding ...
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... conjunction , or by the interrogative pronouns " who " or " what . " Thus : Who had handled the gun , perplexed the good hunter no little . " Who had handled the gun " is a noun clause , subject of " perplexed , " and is introduced by ...
... conjunction , or by the interrogative pronouns " who " or " what . " Thus : Who had handled the gun , perplexed the good hunter no little . " Who had handled the gun " is a noun clause , subject of " perplexed , " and is introduced by ...
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... conjunctions ; but they may stand joined by their very position in the sentence - connected without any conjunction expressed . Co - ordinate Conjunctions are divided into four classes ; namely , copulative , adversative , alternative ...
... conjunctions ; but they may stand joined by their very position in the sentence - connected without any conjunction expressed . Co - ordinate Conjunctions are divided into four classes ; namely , copulative , adversative , alternative ...
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... conjunctions . The following are the principal alternative conjunctions : else otherwise or nor either - or neither - nor whether - or Illative Conjunctions.- When the members express thoughts one of which shall be an effect or ...
... conjunctions . The following are the principal alternative conjunctions : else otherwise or nor either - or neither - nor whether - or Illative Conjunctions.- When the members express thoughts one of which shall be an effect or ...
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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