Composition and Rhetoric by Practice: With Exercises Adapted for Use in High Schools and CollegesD.C. Heath & Company, 1902 - 338 páginas |
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... adjective , adverb , infinitive , or other part of speech - used as a noun . 1. The subject , when a noun or pronoun , may be modified by : - ( 1 ) An adjective or an adjective phrase , used either attri- butively or appositively ; as ...
... adjective , adverb , infinitive , or other part of speech - used as a noun . 1. The subject , when a noun or pronoun , may be modified by : - ( 1 ) An adjective or an adjective phrase , used either attri- butively or appositively ; as ...
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... adjective ; as , " They made him king " ; " He was made king " ; " The pain drove him wild . " All the objects or complements of 2 , 3 , 4 , and 5 , whether sub- stantival , adjectival , or adverbial , are themselves subject to modifi ...
... adjective ; as , " They made him king " ; " He was made king " ; " The pain drove him wild . " All the objects or complements of 2 , 3 , 4 , and 5 , whether sub- stantival , adjectival , or adverbial , are themselves subject to modifi ...
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... adjective , adjective pronoun , numeral adjective , an adjectival case or phrase , a verbal aujective , or a participial phrase . 9. Write a simple sentence with a copula completed by ( 1 ) an adjective of each of the various classes ...
... adjective , adjective pronoun , numeral adjective , an adjectival case or phrase , a verbal aujective , or a participial phrase . 9. Write a simple sentence with a copula completed by ( 1 ) an adjective of each of the various classes ...
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... adjective clause has the value of an attributive or ap- positive adjective ; hence it is always attached to a substantive . An adjective clause may be attached to the words it modifies by : : - ( 1 ) A relative pronoun ; as , merciful a ...
... adjective clause has the value of an attributive or ap- positive adjective ; hence it is always attached to a substantive . An adjective clause may be attached to the words it modifies by : : - ( 1 ) A relative pronoun ; as , merciful a ...
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... adjective , or an adverb . An adverbial clause may be connected with the word it modifies by : - ( 1 ) A subordinate conjunction of time , place , cause , manner , etc. Thus : " As he wended his way back , every sound flut- tered his ...
... adjective , or an adverb . An adverbial clause may be connected with the word it modifies by : - ( 1 ) A subordinate conjunction of time , place , cause , manner , etc. Thus : " As he wended his way back , every sound flut- tered his ...
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accent adjective adverbial arranged beauty C. E. Brock catalectic cents character Cheerfulness is Productive clauses clear Cloth comma complete complex sentence composition compound conclusion connected consists construction dependent clauses diction DIRECTION discourse effect English example EXERCISE expression farmer feelings figures of speech framework give hand happiness head heart iambic iambic pentameter Iambic trimeter idea Illustrated important Introduction kind labor language letter live lyric poetry matter meaning melody ment metaphor Metonymy metre mind Narration nature never noun object paragraph Periodic Sentences person PETER SCHOEFFER phrases pleasure poem poetic poetry preceding Lesson predicate present principles pronoun prose qualities reader reason relative pronoun Rhetorical Value rhyme rules scene sense simile simple sentences sometimes statement style syllables synecdoche tences theme things thou thought tion topics TRANSPOSING Trochaic variety verb Wells's whole words write written
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Página 203 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 251 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Página 205 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 204 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom — Take the wings Of morning — and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings...
Página 250 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Página 213 - And, seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me.
Página 218 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Página 198 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Página 187 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful...
Página 205 - All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee. As the long train Of ages...