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 páginas |
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... common conversations . To cultivate the habits of observation , the following dia- logue , from the pen of Dr. Aikin , is presented ; with the recommendation that it be read to the young student , or that he be required to read it ...
... common conversations . To cultivate the habits of observation , the following dia- logue , from the pen of Dr. Aikin , is presented ; with the recommendation that it be read to the young student , or that he be required to read it ...
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... common snakes , but this is thicker in proportion , and of a darker color than they are . Tutor . True . Vipers frequent those turfy , boggy grounds pretty much , and I have known several turf - cutters bitten by them William . They are ...
... common snakes , but this is thicker in proportion , and of a darker color than they are . Tutor . True . Vipers frequent those turfy , boggy grounds pretty much , and I have known several turf - cutters bitten by them William . They are ...
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... Common . Charles . What is the name of that disease which people have who are bitten by mad dogs ? Henry . It is called hydrophobia , which is a Greek_word , and means " fear of water . " Dogs , when they are mad , car- not bear the ...
... Common . Charles . What is the name of that disease which people have who are bitten by mad dogs ? Henry . It is called hydrophobia , which is a Greek_word , and means " fear of water . " Dogs , when they are mad , car- not bear the ...
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... common , or abstract , are joined to their subjects by means of connecting words , but without a verb , the collection is called a phrase . As , The extent of the city ; The path up the mountain ; The house by the side of the river . If ...
... common , or abstract , are joined to their subjects by means of connecting words , but without a verb , the collection is called a phrase . As , The extent of the city ; The path up the mountain ; The house by the side of the river . If ...
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... other , or upon some common clause , they are separated by semicolons ; as , " Wisdom has builded her house ; she hath hewn out her seven pillars ; sh hath killed her beasts ; she hath mingled her wine ; 28 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... other , or upon some common clause , they are separated by semicolons ; as , " Wisdom has builded her house ; she hath hewn out her seven pillars ; sh hath killed her beasts ; she hath mingled her wine ; 28 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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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