Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... Sentence consists of one independent prop- osition . It contains only one subject and one predicate ; but an indefinite number of words and phrases may be brought into the sentence , and grouped about the subject and the predicate as ...
... Sentence consists of one independent prop- osition . It contains only one subject and one predicate ; but an indefinite number of words and phrases may be brought into the sentence , and grouped about the subject and the predicate as ...
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... sentence is no longer simple , but complex or compound , according to the nature of the proposition introduced . The following examples will severally illustrate the simple , the complex , and the compound sentence : After reading the ...
... sentence is no longer simple , but complex or compound , according to the nature of the proposition introduced . The following examples will severally illustrate the simple , the complex , and the compound sentence : After reading the ...
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... 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 fell suddenly . " ( 3 ) Nouns used as ...
... 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 fell suddenly . " ( 3 ) Nouns used as ...
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... sentence , and become : ( 1 ) A subject ; as , " To forget an injury is noble . " ( 2 ) A complement ; as , " The duty is to act " ; " He told me to go home " ; " The doctor bade the man ( to ) walk . " ( 3 ) An adjective modifier ; as ...
... sentence , and become : ( 1 ) A subject ; as , " To forget an injury is noble . " ( 2 ) A complement ; as , " The duty is to act " ; " He told me to go home " ; " The doctor bade the man ( to ) walk . " ( 3 ) An adjective modifier ; as ...
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... sentences illustrating all the points made above . EXERCISE I. DIRECTION . - Supply appropriate subjects , so as to make complete simple sen- tences . Thus : • tends his flock . The shepherd tends his flock . commends the ... SENTENCE . 13.
... sentences illustrating all the points made above . EXERCISE I. DIRECTION . - Supply appropriate subjects , so as to make complete simple sen- tences . Thus : • tends his flock . The shepherd tends his flock . commends the ... SENTENCE . 13.
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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