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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... verb , adverb , or other part of speech , the substitution of which implies an alteration in the con- otruction . It is ... participles of verbs ; to which must be added some few terms , which , though set down in the dictionaries , are ...
... verb , adverb , or other part of speech , the substitution of which implies an alteration in the con- otruction . It is ... participles of verbs ; to which must be added some few terms , which , though set down in the dictionaries , are ...
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... verb to which they be long ; and on the contrary , they also sometimes make use of repetitions which are seldom ... verbs ; employ participles and interjections more frequently than prose writers ; connect words that are not in all ...
... verb to which they be long ; and on the contrary , they also sometimes make use of repetitions which are seldom ... verbs ; employ participles and interjections more frequently than prose writers ; connect words that are not in all ...
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... verbs in this extract , by the tense of the verb said , with which he introduces it . DIRECTION 4th . Whenever ... participles of verbs neuter require the auxiliary am or have before them . The French , in this case ; confine themselves ...
... verbs in this extract , by the tense of the verb said , with which he introduces it . DIRECTION 4th . Whenever ... participles of verbs neuter require the auxiliary am or have before them . The French , in this case ; confine themselves ...
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... participle He done ( did it at my request : He run ( ran ) a great risk : He has ... verbs , and frequently between the auxil iary and the verb . The following ... participles building and preparing must necessarily be understood in a ...
... participle He done ( did it at my request : He run ( ran ) a great risk : He has ... verbs , and frequently between the auxil iary and the verb . The following ... participles building and preparing must necessarily be understood in a ...
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... participles of verbs in ack , as backed , hacked , & c . Allowable rhymes , the preterits and participles of verbs in ake , as baked , caked , & c . See Direction 3 . But to the King they say they are most loyal . Lie all . Amen . Then ...
... participles of verbs in ack , as backed , hacked , & c . Allowable rhymes , the preterits and participles of verbs in ake , as baked , caked , & c . See Direction 3 . But to the King they say they are most loyal . Lie all . Amen . Then ...
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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