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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... mean to do , if you will give me leave . Tutor . What is that ? William . I will go again , and take with me Cary's country map , by which I shall probably be able to make out most of the places . Tutor . You shall have it , and I will ...
... mean to do , if you will give me leave . Tutor . What is that ? William . I will go again , and take with me Cary's country map , by which I shall probably be able to make out most of the places . Tutor . You shall have it , and I will ...
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... means " fear of water . " Dogs , when they are mad , car- not bear the sight of water ; they will not drink ; and there- fore , whenever a dog will drink , you may be sure that he is not mad . When a person is bitten by a mad , or rabid ...
... means " fear of water . " Dogs , when they are mad , car- not bear the sight of water ; they will not drink ; and there- fore , whenever a dog will drink , you may be sure that he is not mad . When a person is bitten by a mad , or rabid ...
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... mean ; meat , meet , mete ; pare , pear ; peas , piece ; prac- tice , practise ; assent , ascent ; rite , right , write ... means of connecting words , but without a verb , the collection is called a phrase . As , The extent of the city ...
... mean ; meat , meet , mete ; pare , pear ; peas , piece ; prac- tice , practise ; assent , ascent ; rite , right , write ... means of connecting words , but without a verb , the collection is called a phrase . As , The extent of the city ...
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... means half , and the Greek word kolon , which signifies a member . The word period is derived from the Greek language , and means sircuit . " 66 The Exclamation ! The Brace The Interrogation ? The Dash AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 27 ...
... means half , and the Greek word kolon , which signifies a member . The word period is derived from the Greek language , and means sircuit . " 66 The Exclamation ! The Brace The Interrogation ? The Dash AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 27 ...
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... is derived from the Latin , and means « ques The word parenthesis is derived from the Greek language , and meant in insertion . another sentence , but which may be omitted without injuring 3 * AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... is derived from the Latin , and means « ques The word parenthesis is derived from the Greek language , and meant in insertion . another sentence , but which may be omitted without injuring 3 * AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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Términos y frases comunes
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