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 VerseHarper & Brothers, 1845 - 429 sider |
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Side 30
... syllable must never be separated ; as , extraor- dinary , not ext- raordinary . The dash is a straight mark longer ... syllables , or letters , is indicated by various marks ; sometimes by a dash ; as , the k - g , for the king ...
... syllable must never be separated ; as , extraor- dinary , not ext- raordinary . The dash is a straight mark longer ... syllables , or letters , is indicated by various marks ; sometimes by a dash ; as , the k - g , for the king ...
Side 31
... syllable must be pronounced with the rising inflection of the voice ; thus , Epicuréan , European . The meaning of a sentence often depends on the kind of accent which is used ; thus , the following sentence if the acute accent be used ...
... syllable must be pronounced with the rising inflection of the voice ; thus , Epicuréan , European . The meaning of a sentence often depends on the kind of accent which is used ; thus , the following sentence if the acute accent be used ...
Side 32
... syllable on which it is placed should have both the rising and the falling inflection of the voice . The caret is a mark resembling an inverted v , placed under the line It is never used in printed books , but , in manuscripts , it ...
... syllable on which it is placed should have both the rising and the falling inflection of the voice . The caret is a mark resembling an inverted v , placed under the line It is never used in printed books , but , in manuscripts , it ...
Side 35
... syllable added ; as , sea - water , unable , myself . * Words are found , on examination , to be reducible to groups or families , and are related to each other by identity of origin and similarity of signi- fication . Thus the words ...
... syllable added ; as , sea - water , unable , myself . * Words are found , on examination , to be reducible to groups or families , and are related to each other by identity of origin and similarity of signi- fication . Thus the words ...
Side 40
... that a long word must be substituted for a short one , or a short one for a long , in order to produce the necessa ry succession of syllables to constitute the measure , or 10 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . Synonymes,
... that a long word must be substituted for a short one , or a short one for a long , in order to produce the necessa ry succession of syllables to constitute the measure , or 10 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . Synonymes,
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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