The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1881 - 220 sayfa |
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... clause , a sentence , a paragraph , or any lit- erary composition whatsoever , is said to end with a climax when , by an artistic arrangement , the more effective is made to follow the less effective in regular gradation . Any great ...
... clause , a sentence , a paragraph , or any lit- erary composition whatsoever , is said to end with a climax when , by an artistic arrangement , the more effective is made to follow the less effective in regular gradation . Any great ...
Sayfa 68
... clauses : ' a house that the owner lets or will let ' ; ' the course that we should steer by ' ; ' a thing that should be done ' ; ' a city wherein one may take refuge ' ; ' the means whereby ill deeds may be done . ' When the to ceased ...
... clauses : ' a house that the owner lets or will let ' ; ' the course that we should steer by ' ; ' a thing that should be done ' ; ' a city wherein one may take refuge ' ; ' the means whereby ill deeds may be done . ' When the to ceased ...
Sayfa 70
... " Is to put them in tabular form " ; or better , " The shortest way is to exhibit them in tabular form . " " " 362. The joining together two clauses with a 70 THE VERBALIST . shown, he has had full leisure for its revision...
... " Is to put them in tabular form " ; or better , " The shortest way is to exhibit them in tabular form . " " " 362. The joining together two clauses with a 70 THE VERBALIST . shown, he has had full leisure for its revision...
Sayfa 71
... clauses with a third , " etc .; read , " of two clauses , " etc. Gown . See DRESS . Graduated . Students do not graduate ; they are grad- uated . Hence most writers nowadays say , " I was , he was , or they were graduated " ; and ask ...
... clauses with a third , " etc .; read , " of two clauses , " etc. Gown . See DRESS . Graduated . Students do not graduate ; they are grad- uated . Hence most writers nowadays say , " I was , he was , or they were graduated " ; and ask ...
Sayfa 76
... clause which it is found will leave the sentence neither less clear nor less forcible than it is without them . " - Swinton . " With all watchfulness , it is astonishing what slips are made , even by good writers , in the employment of ...
... clause which it is found will leave the sentence neither less clear nor less forcible than it is without them . " - Swinton . " With all watchfulness , it is astonishing what slips are made , even by good writers , in the employment of ...
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