Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... relationship , as of superiority or inferiority between parties . The master asks the servant , and the servant asks the master to do a thing . It is the or- dinary form for expressing ordinary requirements . It Request is a more polite ...
... relationship , as of superiority or inferiority between parties . The master asks the servant , and the servant asks the master to do a thing . It is the or- dinary form for expressing ordinary requirements . It Request is a more polite ...
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... relation to the life of man ; as a maritime people , maritime trade or occupations . Naval means belonging to ships . We speak of a naval life , a naval profession , a naval armament . MUTUAL [ Lat . ] ; RECIPROCAL [ Lat . ] .— Mutual ...
... relation to the life of man ; as a maritime people , maritime trade or occupations . Naval means belonging to ships . We speak of a naval life , a naval profession , a naval armament . MUTUAL [ Lat . ] ; RECIPROCAL [ Lat . ] .— Mutual ...
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... relation to , rights , claims , or privileges ; Occupation , in relation to no more than the fact of possessing and holding . We speak of the occupancy of an estate ; and the occupation , not occupancy , of a country by an army ...
... relation to , rights , claims , or privileges ; Occupation , in relation to no more than the fact of possessing and holding . We speak of the occupancy of an estate ; and the occupation , not occupancy , of a country by an army ...
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... relation between qualifying adjuncts and the words they modify ; hence , it is chiefly through the wrong placing of ... relations of words , position is a matter of prime importance . The sentence , " The savage here the settler slew ...
... relation between qualifying adjuncts and the words they modify ; hence , it is chiefly through the wrong placing of ... relations of words , position is a matter of prime importance . The sentence , " The savage here the settler slew ...
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... relation may clearly appear . This rule is violated most frequently by the improper placing of adverbs , of adverbial phrases and clauses , of participles , and of personal and relative pronouns . The single - word adverbs that are most ...
... relation may clearly appear . This rule is violated most frequently by the improper placing of adverbs , of adverbial phrases and clauses , of participles , and of personal and relative pronouns . The single - word adverbs that are most ...
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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