Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... truth , there were many bad traits in the character of Queen Eliz- abeth . ' " " The adjective phrase is one introduced by a word used regularly as an adjective . Thus : " He was a man generous in all things " ; " His garden , 12 ...
... truth , there were many bad traits in the character of Queen Eliz- abeth . ' " " The adjective phrase is one introduced by a word used regularly as an adjective . Thus : " He was a man generous in all things " ; " His garden , 12 ...
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... truth , I was greatly to blame for my indiscretion . 13. To pull down the false and to build up the true , and to uphold what there is of true in the old , -let this be our endeavor . 14. Striving to make men contented is undertaking an ...
... truth , I was greatly to blame for my indiscretion . 13. To pull down the false and to build up the true , and to uphold what there is of true in the old , -let this be our endeavor . 14. Striving to make men contented is undertaking an ...
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... truths of the gospel ex- plained to them , you would think their acceptance of these truths cer- tain . * EXERCISE XXIII . DIRECTION . - Contract the following complex sentences into simple sentences , and tell the kind of phrase into ...
... truths of the gospel ex- plained to them , you would think their acceptance of these truths cer- tain . * EXERCISE XXIII . DIRECTION . - Contract the following complex sentences into simple sentences , and tell the kind of phrase into ...
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... truth , I was wrong . 17. Make me a cottage in the vale , where I may mourn and pray . 18. See how the morning opes her golden gates . 19. This is the beginning of civility . 20. ' Tis hard to find the right Homer . 21. My traveling ...
... truth , I was wrong . 17. Make me a cottage in the vale , where I may mourn and pray . 18. See how the morning opes her golden gates . 19. This is the beginning of civility . 20. ' Tis hard to find the right Homer . 21. My traveling ...
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... truth . 22. Let the first fruits of your intellect be laid before the altar of Him who breathed into your nostrils the breath of life ; and with that breath your immortal spirit . 23. God's angel , Sleep , with manifold Soft touches ...
... truth . 22. Let the first fruits of your intellect be laid before the altar of Him who breathed into your nostrils the breath of life ; and with that breath your immortal spirit . 23. God's angel , Sleep , with manifold Soft touches ...
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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