Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... mind the directions given for the proper placing of the clauses : 1. Last night , as I lay fettered in my dungeon , I heard a strange , ominous sound . 2. In prayer you will find that a state of mind is generated which will shed a holy ...
... mind the directions given for the proper placing of the clauses : 1. Last night , as I lay fettered in my dungeon , I heard a strange , ominous sound . 2. In prayer you will find that a state of mind is generated which will shed a holy ...
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... gentlest sheep of all the flock , Shapely of form , full - fleeced , and tame ; He stroked her head and called her name , While in his mind grew grand designs . " Can I not picture her ? " he thought THE COMPOUND SENTENCE . 49.
... gentlest sheep of all the flock , Shapely of form , full - fleeced , and tame ; He stroked her head and called her name , While in his mind grew grand designs . " Can I not picture her ? " he thought THE COMPOUND SENTENCE . 49.
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... mind , in all cases , hopes . 14. A fine day is commended by every one . 15. The animal with long ears gives a kick to the bucket . 16. The age , without question , produces daring profligates , and hypocrites of an insidious character ...
... mind , in all cases , hopes . 14. A fine day is commended by every one . 15. The animal with long ears gives a kick to the bucket . 16. The age , without question , produces daring profligates , and hypocrites of an insidious character ...
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... mind . 19. The people could not refrain from capering if they heard the sound of a fiddle . 20. The Mohammedan lives as the Koran directs . 21. He prayed that he might be speedily succored . EXERCISE XX . DIRECTION . - Change each ...
... mind . 19. The people could not refrain from capering if they heard the sound of a fiddle . 20. The Mohammedan lives as the Koran directs . 21. He prayed that he might be speedily succored . EXERCISE XX . DIRECTION . - Change each ...
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... mind from my present state , in thinking of the various events of my life . 10. When the speaker has finished , the members of the council leave him five or six minutes to recollect anything inadvertently omitted . II . As the Indians ...
... mind from my present state , in thinking of the various events of my life . 10. When the speaker has finished , the members of the council leave him five or six minutes to recollect anything inadvertently omitted . II . As the Indians ...
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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