The Study and practice of writing EnglishHoughton Mifflin, 1914 - 342 páginas |
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... Give me the rifle . EXCEPTION . The rule given above is extremely important , and it should , in general , be strictly adhered to ; nevertheless , good usage furnishes an exception : Two or more sentences that are closely connected in ...
... Give me the rifle . EXCEPTION . The rule given above is extremely important , and it should , in general , be strictly adhered to ; nevertheless , good usage furnishes an exception : Two or more sentences that are closely connected in ...
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... gives just the right shade of suspense between the two parts of the sentence , shows , as it were , a pause for consideration and conclusion . There are many similar cases in which the semicolon can be made equally sig- nificant as a ...
... gives just the right shade of suspense between the two parts of the sentence , shows , as it were , a pause for consideration and conclusion . There are many similar cases in which the semicolon can be made equally sig- nificant as a ...
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... gives is not essential to the grammatical complete- ness or the sense of the sentence . Since it is merely paren- thetic in character , a nonrestrictive phrase or clause can be omitted without serious damage to the sentence . Such a ...
... gives is not essential to the grammatical complete- ness or the sense of the sentence . Since it is merely paren- thetic in character , a nonrestrictive phrase or clause can be omitted without serious damage to the sentence . Such a ...
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... give additional or parenthetic infor- mation Punctuation No mark of punc- Commas tuation EXERCISE Distinguish between restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses . Insert commas where they are needed . 1. Formerly the students who did not ...
... give additional or parenthetic infor- mation Punctuation No mark of punc- Commas tuation EXERCISE Distinguish between restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses . Insert commas where they are needed . 1. Formerly the students who did not ...
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... give it to him . 10. It is so indeed Richard says King Philip looking rather foolish . 11. The firm mouth the finely lined nose the clear questioning eyes the full broad forehead all speak the man of logical mind of an unruffled ...
... give it to him . 10. It is so indeed Richard says King Philip looking rather foolish . 11. The firm mouth the finely lined nose the clear questioning eyes the full broad forehead all speak the man of logical mind of an unruffled ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
abbreviation action adjective apostrophe arrangement BALDWIN Better C. L. English Composition C. S. Composition Oral characters College comma Composition and Rhetoric Correct definite Dictionary discourse drama Edgar Allan Poe English Prose EXERCISE Exposition expression figures of speech G. B. Shaw G. K. Chesterton GENUNG give given HERRICK and DAMON ideas inclose Incorrect indicate language literary material means ment method mind modify narration Nathaniel Hawthorne never NOTE noun omitted outline paragraph person play plot plural point of view Principles of Rhetoric pronoun punctuation quotation marks reader reference Rhetoric and English Rhetoric for Schools Rhetoric in Practice Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling rule Sarah Orne Jewett scene Selma Lagerlöf sentence Short Story singular Specimens student Study style suggestions synonyms thing Thomas Bailey Aldrich thought tion Undesirable unity usually verb W. B. Yeats W. D. Howells words Writing English York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 307 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 93 - A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: But a just weight is his delight.
Página 307 - ... t were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 307 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Página 158 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Página 154 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered...
Página 306 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Página 155 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of...
Página 306 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.
Página 162 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but, when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke the stalk, and,...