Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... words in sentences formed by others , and be but a bungler in giving expression to his own ideas . For a like reason , also , the sub- ject of Concord , which perhaps belongs still more strictly to Grammar , is included ; not all of the ...
... words in sentences formed by others , and be but a bungler in giving expression to his own ideas . For a like reason , also , the sub- ject of Concord , which perhaps belongs still more strictly to Grammar , is included ; not all of the ...
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... words and phrases ; for , if another proposi- tion , either subordinate or independent , be introduced , the ... word in the succeeding clause . Such clauses are subordinate , or dependent , and sentences containing such clauses are com ...
... words and phrases ; for , if another proposi- tion , either subordinate or independent , be introduced , the ... word in the succeeding clause . Such clauses are subordinate , or dependent , and sentences containing such clauses are com ...
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... words and phrases , even the simple sentence may be long and difficult , and may express much . Words introduced as modifiers are : ( 1 ) Adjectives ; as , " Honest men can speak for them- selves . " ( 2 ) Adverbs ; as , " The house ...
... words and phrases , even the simple sentence may be long and difficult , and may express much . Words introduced as modifiers are : ( 1 ) Adjectives ; as , " Honest men can speak for them- selves . " ( 2 ) Adverbs ; as , " The house ...
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... word of a prepositional phrase ; as , " By taking pains , you will succeed . " ( 5 ) The principal word in a phrase used as a comple- ment ; as , " Excuse my answering your question . " ( 6 ) It may be independent ; as , " Confessing ...
... word of a prepositional phrase ; as , " By taking pains , you will succeed . " ( 5 ) The principal word in a phrase used as a comple- ment ; as , " Excuse my answering your question . " ( 6 ) It may be independent ; as , " Confessing ...
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... word . It may consist of the name of a person or thing spoken of in exclamatory phrases ; as , " O their dreadful end ! " or of ... words or phrases ; as , " O , pardon me , thou bleeding piece of earth . " DIRECTION . - Write sentences ...
... word . It may consist of the name of a person or thing spoken of in exclamatory phrases ; as , " O their dreadful end ! " or of ... words or phrases ; as , " O , pardon me , thou bleeding piece of earth . " DIRECTION . - Write sentences ...
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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