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 Verse |
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... begin with a capital letter . The first word after a period should begin with a capital letter . The first word after every interrogation , or exclamation , should begin with a capital letter ; unless a number of inter- rogative , or ...
... begin with a capital letter . The first word after a period should begin with a capital letter . The first word after every interrogation , or exclamation , should begin with a capital letter ; unless a number of inter- rogative , or ...
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... begin with a capital letter . The pronoun I , and the interjection O , are always written in capitals . Any words , when remarkably emphatical , or when they are the principal subject of the composition , may begin with capitals ...
... begin with a capital letter . The pronoun I , and the interjection O , are always written in capitals . Any words , when remarkably emphatical , or when they are the principal subject of the composition , may begin with capitals ...
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... : " Fall of , to for . sake ; " Fall out , to happen : " " Fall upon . to attack ; Fall to . " to begin ea gerly , " & c . The records of Scripture exhibit no character more remarkable and 56 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... : " Fall of , to for . sake ; " Fall out , to happen : " " Fall upon . to attack ; Fall to . " to begin ea gerly , " & c . The records of Scripture exhibit no character more remarkable and 56 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... begin ning to the end of the sentence . Thus : The Sultan being dangerously wounded , was carried to his tent ; and on hearing of the defeat of his troops , was put into a litter , and trans- ported to a place of safety , about fifteen ...
... begin ning to the end of the sentence . Thus : The Sultan being dangerously wounded , was carried to his tent ; and on hearing of the defeat of his troops , was put into a litter , and trans- ported to a place of safety , about fifteen ...
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... begin ning to the end . Another direction or rule to preserve the unity of a sentence may be thus stated : Never crowd into one sentence ideas which have so little connexion that they might well be divided into two or more sentences It ...
... begin ning to the end . Another direction or rule to preserve the unity of a sentence may be thus stated : Never crowd into one sentence ideas which have so little connexion that they might well be divided into two or more sentences It ...
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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