Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... illustrate the simple , the complex , and the compound sentence : After reading the papers , I returned them . Since this sentence contains but one subject and one predicate , it is restricted to a single proposition , and is ...
... illustrate the simple , the complex , and the compound sentence : After reading the papers , I returned them . Since this sentence contains but one subject and one predicate , it is restricted to a single proposition , and is ...
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... illustrates the method : The Natural Bridge , over Cedar Creek , is a rocky mass spanning the bed of the stream at a height of 215 feet . The Natural Bridge is a rocky mass . It is over Cedar Creek . Analysis . It spans the bed of the ...
... illustrates the method : The Natural Bridge , over Cedar Creek , is a rocky mass spanning the bed of the stream at a height of 215 feet . The Natural Bridge is a rocky mass . It is over Cedar Creek . Analysis . It spans the bed of the ...
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... illustrates this objectionable use of " that " by the sentence , " There are many persons that , though unscrupulous , are commonly good - tempered , and that , if not strongly incited by self- interest , are ready for the most part to ...
... illustrates this objectionable use of " that " by the sentence , " There are many persons that , though unscrupulous , are commonly good - tempered , and that , if not strongly incited by self- interest , are ready for the most part to ...
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... illustrate the proverb . 9. I am more willing to give . than to ask . SYNTHESIS OF COMPLEX SENTENCES . Statements may be combined into a complex sentence by making one statement the principal proposition , and the other statement , or ...
... illustrate the proverb . 9. I am more willing to give . than to ask . SYNTHESIS OF COMPLEX SENTENCES . Statements may be combined into a complex sentence by making one statement the principal proposition , and the other statement , or ...
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... illustrate the various kinds of connection : ( Copulative ) All the world's a stage , and all the men and women merely players . ( Adversative ) True , he served the state in his youth ; but then he betrayed it in his old age ...
... illustrate the various kinds of connection : ( Copulative ) All the world's a stage , and all the men and women merely players . ( Adversative ) True , he served the state in his youth ; but then he betrayed it in his old age ...
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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