Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... rules and examples illustrate the leading requirements of Concord : RULE I. - The subject of a sentence or of a proposition should have the nominative form . Thus : " James and I came home , " not , " James and me . " " There is a child ...
... rules and examples illustrate the leading requirements of Concord : RULE I. - The subject of a sentence or of a proposition should have the nominative form . Thus : " James and I came home , " not , " James and me . " " There is a child ...
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... RULE II . — The object of an action or of a preposition should have the objective form . Violations of this rule are frequent in the use of pronouns that are subject to a change of form . " Whom are you speaking to ? ” not , “ Who are ...
... RULE II . — The object of an action or of a preposition should have the objective form . Violations of this rule are frequent in the use of pronouns that are subject to a change of form . " Whom are you speaking to ? ” not , “ Who are ...
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... RULE V. - A noun or pronoun used as the complement of an intransitive or a passive verb must be in the nominative Thus : case . This is he . He became a scholar . He shall be called John . Who do you think it is ? Let him be who he may ...
... RULE V. - A noun or pronoun used as the complement of an intransitive or a passive verb must be in the nominative Thus : case . This is he . He became a scholar . He shall be called John . Who do you think it is ? Let him be who he may ...
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... RULE VII . A noun or pronoun in apposition is put in the same case as the noun it modifies . Thus : Will you dishonor your mother , her who is your best friend ? Ask the murderer , him who has steeped his hands in the blood of another ...
... RULE VII . A noun or pronoun in apposition is put in the same case as the noun it modifies . Thus : Will you dishonor your mother , her who is your best friend ? Ask the murderer , him who has steeped his hands in the blood of another ...
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... RULE IX . - A verb must agree with its subject in person and number . Cana In the agreement of verbs with their subjects , primary regard must be paid to the meaning . We may have a singular meaning in a plural form , and a plural ...
... RULE IX . - A verb must agree with its subject in person and number . Cana In the agreement of verbs with their subjects , primary regard must be paid to the meaning . We may have a singular meaning in a plural form , and a plural ...
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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