Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and Verse |
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... Clauses , and Sentences , X. Use of Words , Phrases , and Clauses , in the expan- sion of an idea , XI . Of the Parts and Adjuncts of a Sentence , XII . Of Sentences , XIII . Of Capital Letters , XIV . Of Punctuation , XV Derivation and ...
... Clauses , and Sentences , X. Use of Words , Phrases , and Clauses , in the expan- sion of an idea , XI . Of the Parts and Adjuncts of a Sentence , XII . Of Sentences , XIII . Of Capital Letters , XIV . Of Punctuation , XV Derivation and ...
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... clause ; site , cite , sight ; clime , climb ; complement , compliment ; creek , creak ; flue , flew ; blew , blue ; fort , forte ; frays , phrase ; herd , heard ; slight . sleight ; wave , waive . OF PHRASES , CLAUSES , AND SENTENCES ...
... clause ; site , cite , sight ; clime , climb ; complement , compliment ; creek , creak ; flue , flew ; blew , blue ; fort , forte ; frays , phrase ; herd , heard ; slight . sleight ; wave , waive . OF PHRASES , CLAUSES , AND SENTENCES ...
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... clause , a simple sentence , or a simple propo- sition , words of nearly equivalent import . As , The city is large ... clause may therefore be thus de fined : A phrase is a connected assemblage of words , without a finite verb . A ...
... clause , a simple sentence , or a simple propo- sition , words of nearly equivalent import . As , The city is large ... clause may therefore be thus de fined : A phrase is a connected assemblage of words , without a finite verb . A ...
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... Clauses are joined together to form compound sentences by conjunctions and relative pronouns ; and phrases are , for ... clause . As , [ The veil , which covers from our eyes the events of succeeding years ] is a veil woven by the hand ...
... Clauses are joined together to form compound sentences by conjunctions and relative pronouns ; and phrases are , for ... clause . As , [ The veil , which covers from our eyes the events of succeeding years ] is a veil woven by the hand ...
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... clauses , the clauses from the sentences , the imperfect sentences from the perfect , and the simple from the compound . Exercises . The eye of the passing traveller may mark them , or mark them not but they stand peacefully in ...
... clauses , the clauses from the sentences , the imperfect sentences from the perfect , and the simple from the compound . Exercises . The eye of the passing traveller may mark them , or mark them not but they stand peacefully in ...
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Common terms and phrases
accent acute accent adverb Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue words writer written young