Elements of English Composition, Grammatical, Rhetorical, Logical, and Practical. Prepared for Academies and Schools

James Robert Boyd

A.S. Barnes & Burr, 1875 - 406 pages

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LESSON	11

LESSON FAGE Examples for the use of capital letters points marks of quota tion c	13

Additional examples for the use of capital letters c	14

Parts of speech The Noun	18

Nouns Their number gender case	19

Nouns Their gender	23

Nouns Their cases	24

Pronouns Personal Pronouns	26

Synonyms continued	191

Additional synonyms	194

Synonyms continued	196

Precision of expression	200

Clearness in the structure of sentences	201

Clearness in the structure of sentences	205

Clearness in the structure of sentences	207

Unity in the construction of sentences and paragraphs	211

Pronouns Compound personal relative etc	29

Adjective Pronouns or Pronominal Adjectives	32

Adjectives	34

Adjectives Degrees of quality expressed	37

The Article Proper and improper use of it	39

The Verb Classes of Verbs	44

Auxiliary Verbs Erroneous use of them	47

Intransitive Verbs Erroneous use of them	51

Irregular Verbs Erroneous use of them	53

Verbs The proper use of the subjunctive mood	55

Verbs Proper and improper use of certain tenses and moods	58

Verbs The proper use of number and person	61

Verbs The infinitive mood	66

Participles	68

LESSON PAGE 23 Exercises on Participles	73

The Adverb	74

Position of Adverbs in a sentence and their misapplication	75

Position of Adverbs in a sentence	77

Prepositions	80

Prepositions Their collocation and repetition	84

Conjunctions or connectives	87

Conjunctions Effect of repetition and omission	90

Interjections	93

Primitive and derivative words	94

Rootforms received into our language from the Latin	96

Spelling of derivative and compound words	104

Abbreviations	106

Miscellaneous exercises on the parts of speech	109

Sentences	111

The subject of a sentence	112

The complex or modified subject	115

The predicate of a sentence	117

Transitive and intransitive sentences	119

Complex sentences	120

Sentences Simple and compound	123

Sentences Declarative conditional interrogative impera tive exclamatory	125

Agreement and correspondence among the parts of a sentence	126

Correspondence grammatical and logical among the parts of a sentence	127

Punctuation	128

Punctuation The comma	131

Punctuation The comma	132

Punctuation Colon semicolon	134

Punctuation Period interrogation and exclamation points dash	135

LESSON PAGE 52 Punctuation Remaining marks	137

Sentencebuilding	140

Sentences varied in structure	141

Sentences varied in structure	142

Sentences varied by abridgment and omission of clauses	143

Equivalent modes of expression	144

Sentences varied by transposition of words and clauses	145

Sentences constructed from given words	147

Nonperiodic and periodic sentences	149

Formation of periodic sentences	151

Choice between nonperiodic sentences and a periodic sentence	153

Grammatical purity of diction	155

Purity of diction	158

Simplicity of diction	162

Propriety of expression	166

Propriety of expression	168

Propriety of expression	170

Precision of expression	173

Precision of expression	175

Precision of expression	177

Precision of expression Synonyms	180

Precision of expression Synonyms explained and illustrated	182

Precision of expression Use of synonyms	187

Synonyms continued	189

Vivacity of expression	218

Clear and harmonious construction of the periodic sentence	225

The elegant style The sublime style	232

Figurative expression	238

The vision or hypotyposis	255

The irony	261

Anticipation Correction Omission Concession Expos	269

LESSON PAGE 114 The interrogation The exclamation	274

Exercises on exclamation and interrogation	276

Parenthesis Analepsis Apposition	278

Exercises on the figures in the preceding lesson	280

Hyperbaton Anacoluthon Aposiopesis	281

Repetition and redundancy	282

The alliteration	283

Correction of faulty metaphorical language	285

Exercises on metaphorical language	287

Elementary exercise in original composition	291

Change of poetry into prose	292

Improving the style of old authorsand abridging modern authors	295

Translations and paraphrase	296

Sources of illustration	298

Additional sources of illustration	300

Descriptive writing	301

Questions suggestive of ideas for description	303

Narrative composition	305

Personal subjects	309

Biography	311

Historical composition travels novels	312

Letterwriting Rules for it	314

Additional rules for letterwriting Specimens	315

Essays dissertations etc	324

Topics suggestive of ideas	326

Topics suggestive of ideas	327

Topics suggestive of ideas	329

Topics suggestive of ideas	330

Topics suggestive of ideas	331

LESSON PAGE 145 Topics suggestive of ideas	333

Topics suggestive of ideas	334

Topics suggestive of ideas	336

The oration or discourse	339

Aids in argumentative writing	341

Aids in argumentative writing	344

Aids in argumentative writing	346

Reasoning from examples	350

Reasoning from analogy comparison and contrast	352

Reasoning by fables and proverbs	353

Descriptive and interrogative reasoning	355

Laws of argumentative writing	357

Sermonwriting	358

The writing of poetry	360

Versification	361

Poetical pauses	368

Rules for the principal or cæsural pause	369

Rules for final pauses	371

Accents in verse	373

Imperfect rhymes	375

Blank verse	378

Preliminaries to versification	379

Preliminaries to versification	380

Versification continued	382

Etymological and syntactical figures	385

Poetic language and construction	386

Narrative poetry	390

Lyric poetry	392

Descriptive poetry	393

Subjects for Composition	395

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Expressions et termes fréquents

action adjective adverb apodosis argument beautiful called cause character Cicero clause comma composition compound conjunction connected Correct denote dependent clause diction discourse employed English English language example EXERCISES expression father figure following sentences former give grammatical happy hence ible ical idea implies improperly infinitive infinitive mood intransitive Julius Cæsar kind language learned LESSON letter Lord manner means mind Modify nature never nominative noun object observed omitted one's participle passions passive past tense pause period PERIODIC SENTENCES person phrase pleasure plural preceding predicate preposition present pronoun proper properly protasis reason reference relative clause require rhyme RULE sense singular sometimes speak speech style subjunctive mood Supply the blanks syllable synonyms temperance tence thee thing Thomas à Becket thou thought tion transitive verb trochees truth unto verse virtue words writing

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Titre	Elements of English Composition, Grammatical, Rhetorical, Logical, and Practical. Prepared for Academies and Schools
Auteur	James Robert Boyd
Éditeur	A.S. Barnes & Burr, 1875
Original provenant de	l'Université de Californie
Numérisé	26 nov. 2013
Longueur	406 pages

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