Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... never reached the goal , " changed to , " We regret having never reached the goal . " 4. Adjective , adverb , and noun clauses may be con- tracted to infinitive phrases . Thus : " The sailors found no haven where they might cast anchor ...
... never reached the goal , " changed to , " We regret having never reached the goal . " 4. Adjective , adverb , and noun clauses may be con- tracted to infinitive phrases . Thus : " The sailors found no haven where they might cast anchor ...
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... never sets . 12. When the boy had completed his task , he went to play . 13. He has lost the book which I gave him . 14. The book that was lost has been found . 15. Wherever they marched , their route was marked with blood . 16. A ...
... never sets . 12. When the boy had completed his task , he went to play . 13. He has lost the book which I gave him . 14. The book that was lost has been found . 15. Wherever they marched , their route was marked with blood . 16. A ...
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... never heard the matchless elo- quence of Demosthenes ? 19. Had he thy reason , would he skip and play ? 20. It fell not , for it was founded on a rock . EXERCISE XXI . DIRECTION . -Contract the dependent clauses in 58 COMPOSITION AND ...
... never heard the matchless elo- quence of Demosthenes ? 19. Had he thy reason , would he skip and play ? 20. It fell not , for it was founded on a rock . EXERCISE XXI . DIRECTION . -Contract the dependent clauses in 58 COMPOSITION AND ...
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... never ceases blows a blast that is keen to - night . 24. The leaves produced soft sounds in the air . 25. The dead man lay with his face turned upwards to the sky . 26. Now , all dames given to finding fault should know the story of ...
... never ceases blows a blast that is keen to - night . 24. The leaves produced soft sounds in the air . 25. The dead man lay with his face turned upwards to the sky . 26. Now , all dames given to finding fault should know the story of ...
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... The grandam sat , and spun and spun , And never heeded the child , So wistfully waiting beside her chair , More than she heeded the bird of the air . Fret and fret , and spin and spin , With TRANSFORMATION OF ELEMENTS . 69.
... The grandam sat , and spun and spun , And never heeded the child , So wistfully waiting beside her chair , More than she heeded the bird of the air . Fret and fret , and spin and spin , With TRANSFORMATION OF ELEMENTS . 69.
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accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected dependent clause DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet figure flowers following sentences give hand hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic pentameter idea Inchcape Inchcape Rock kind King language light live look Lord meaning metaphor Metonymy mind modifies nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme Richard Penderell RULE sail Saxon sense simile simple sentence snow sometimes soul sound speak speech statement stood style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees Trimeter trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer