Outlines of Rhetoric: Embodied in Rules, Illustrative Examples, and a Progressive Course of Prose CompositionGinn & Company, 1893 - 342 sider |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 17
Side 16
... liable to find a good atlas of the United States ? He has been stopping several weeks at a hotel in London . William has been very ill , but he is some better to - day . You will find the fruit very plenty this season . He stated that ...
... liable to find a good atlas of the United States ? He has been stopping several weeks at a hotel in London . William has been very ill , but he is some better to - day . You will find the fruit very plenty this season . He stated that ...
Side 58
... liable to slip away from you , and something else to take its grammatical place . This is called the error of the " misrelated participle . " - ILLUSTRATIONS . — Thus , " Speaking with a poor woman about the daughter of her neighbor ...
... liable to slip away from you , and something else to take its grammatical place . This is called the error of the " misrelated participle . " - ILLUSTRATIONS . — Thus , " Speaking with a poor woman about the daughter of her neighbor ...
Side 71
... liable to be stolen by what comes between . EXAMPLES . - The amendments to the following sentences show that the position of only is corrected by putting it rigorously next before its principal . He sub - let it to the agency in ...
... liable to be stolen by what comes between . EXAMPLES . - The amendments to the following sentences show that the position of only is corrected by putting it rigorously next before its principal . He sub - let it to the agency in ...
Side 73
... liable to be put between two sentence elements in such a way as to be understood in either direction . Whenever used , such phrases need to be tested for that kind of ambiguity . - EXAMPLES . The following sentence , " The Britons at ...
... liable to be put between two sentence elements in such a way as to be understood in either direction . Whenever used , such phrases need to be tested for that kind of ambiguity . - EXAMPLES . The following sentence , " The Britons at ...
Side 80
... liable . Some word of different number , or perhaps a row of details , will get in between the subject and the verb , and the number of the verb is carelessly conformed to what is nearest . - EXAMPLES . " The dropping of cumbrous words ...
... liable . Some word of different number , or perhaps a row of details , will get in between the subject and the verb , and the number of the verb is carelessly conformed to what is nearest . - EXAMPLES . " The dropping of cumbrous words ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Almindelige termer og sætninger
adjective adverb alienism ambiguity antecedent archaism argument assertion beginning better called character Christmas clause clear common composition condensed confounded connectives construction coördinate correct definite dependent clauses distinction distinguished effect element emphasis emphatic English essay EXAMPLES Exercises expression fact following sentences friends give grammatical idea idiom ILLUSTRATIONS important indicated indicative mood kind liable look means metonymy Michael Johnson mind modifier naturally NOTE noun object observed paragraph participial phrase participle particular perhaps periodic sentence person phrase plural poetry preposition present pretentious principle pronoun prose provincialism punctuation question reader reference relation relative relative clause repeated repetition Rewrite the following Rhetoric Rule Rule 55 semicolon sense singular Sir Lancelot slang sometimes sound Study style subjunctive mood subordinate subordinate clause superfluous syllogism tence tense term theme things thought tion tive topic usage verb vulgarism whole writer
Populære passager
Side 292 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Side 290 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all selfabasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Side 256 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene! How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers made!
Side 258 - ... that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling ; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game.
Side 147 - When the morning was up, they had him to the top of the house, and bid him look south; so he did; and, behold, at a great distance, he saw a most pleasant mountainous country, beautified with woods, vineyards, fruits of all sorts, flowers also, with springs and fountains, very delectable to behold.* Then he asked the name of the country.
Side 299 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Side 34 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Side 211 - ... unknown, unloved, or hostile society of the outer world is allowed by either husband or wife to cross the threshold, it ceases to be home ; it is then only a part of that outer world which you have roofed over, and lighted fire in. But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watched over by Household Gods...
Side 292 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone!
Side 293 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing 5 was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.