Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and Construction Virginia Waddy. } COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC . CHAPTER I. THE SIMPLE SENTENCE .
With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and Construction Virginia Waddy. } COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC . CHAPTER I. THE SIMPLE SENTENCE .
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... SIMPLE SENTENCE . Composition is the art of combining ideas , or thoughts , and arranging them in order . As an art , it is regulated by the principles of Rhetoric . Rhetoric , derived from a Greek verb meaning to speak , is the science ...
... SIMPLE SENTENCE . Composition is the art of combining ideas , or thoughts , and arranging them in order . As an art , it is regulated by the principles of Rhetoric . Rhetoric , derived from a Greek verb meaning to speak , is the science ...
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... 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 papers , I returned ...
... 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 papers , I returned ...
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... 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 fell suddenly . " ( 3 ) Nouns ...
... 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 fell suddenly . " ( 3 ) Nouns ...
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... simple sen- tences . Thus : • tends his flock . The shepherd tends his flock . commends the scholar . · overcomes difficulties . promotes health . • make long voyages . • buries its eggs in the sand , lies between the tropics , will ...
... simple sen- tences . Thus : • tends his flock . The shepherd tends his flock . commends the scholar . · overcomes difficulties . promotes health . • make long voyages . • buries its eggs in the sand , lies between the tropics , will ...
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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