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 VerseHarper & Brothers, 1845 - 429 pages |
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... requiring at once accuracy and despatch ; and therefore the fa- cility which practice alone can impart , in the arrangement of their thoughts , and a ready and correct expression of them , is an attainment exceedingly desirable . In the ...
... requiring at once accuracy and despatch ; and therefore the fa- cility which practice alone can impart , in the arrangement of their thoughts , and a ready and correct expression of them , is an attainment exceedingly desirable . In the ...
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... require . The characters or marks , used in punctuation are : 66.99 The Comma † The Semicolon The Colon The Period § 9 The quotation marks ; The Diæresis : Crotchets B Brackets * The importance of correct punctuation may be seen by the ...
... require . The characters or marks , used in punctuation are : 66.99 The Comma † The Semicolon The Colon The Period § 9 The quotation marks ; The Diæresis : Crotchets B Brackets * The importance of correct punctuation may be seen by the ...
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... requires determination and force to conquer and overcome ; patience and perseverance to subdue and surmount . Whoever aims at Christian perfection must strive with God's assistance to conquer avarice , pride , and every inordinate ...
... requires determination and force to conquer and overcome ; patience and perseverance to subdue and surmount . Whoever aims at Christian perfection must strive with God's assistance to conquer avarice , pride , and every inordinate ...
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... requires . It is the duty of a person to govern those who are under him in all mat ters wherein they are incompetent to rule themselves . Fashion and caprice regulate the majority as the time of one clock rules that of many others ...
... requires . It is the duty of a person to govern those who are under him in all mat ters wherein they are incompetent to rule themselves . Fashion and caprice regulate the majority as the time of one clock rules that of many others ...
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... requires that the subject or nominative should be changed as little as possible during the course of the sentence . Another recommendation of the for- mer expression is , that it throws out the conjunction , which should never be ...
... requires that the subject or nominative should be changed as little as possible during the course of the sentence . Another recommendation of the for- mer expression is , that it throws out the conjunction , which should never be ...
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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