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... simple sentence , ( 2 ) the compound sentence , ( 3 ) the complex sentence , and ( 4 ) the compound - complex sentence . The Simple Sentence You may have thought of a simple sentence only as a subject - verb- object construction , but a ...
... simple sentence , ( 2 ) the compound sentence , ( 3 ) the complex sentence , and ( 4 ) the compound - complex sentence . The Simple Sentence You may have thought of a simple sentence only as a subject - verb- object construction , but a ...
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... simple sentence unusual emphasis . As Baker puts it : " We expect our ideas one at a time , in normal succession - John hit Joe - and with anything further added , in proper sequence , at the end - a real haymaker . Change this fixed ...
... simple sentence unusual emphasis . As Baker puts it : " We expect our ideas one at a time , in normal succession - John hit Joe - and with anything further added , in proper sequence , at the end - a real haymaker . Change this fixed ...
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... simple to complex : ( 1 ) simple groupings of stressed and unstressed syl- lables ; ( 2 ) groupings of words that form minimal syntactic units within a sentence , that is , stress groups ; and ( 3 ) whole clauses bound together by ...
... simple to complex : ( 1 ) simple groupings of stressed and unstressed syl- lables ; ( 2 ) groupings of words that form minimal syntactic units within a sentence , that is , stress groups ; and ( 3 ) whole clauses bound together by ...
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