A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred from Examples of Writing : to which is Added a Historical Dissertation on English StyleIvison & Phinney, 1856 - 311 страници |
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... noun follows an article or preposition , or both , the equivocation may be avoided , by repeating the article , or preposition , or both , before the second noun , if the conjunc- tion be used disjunctively , and omitting to repeat it ...
... noun follows an article or preposition , or both , the equivocation may be avoided , by repeating the article , or preposition , or both , before the second noun , if the conjunc- tion be used disjunctively , and omitting to repeat it ...
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... nouns . Example of the verb . " The next refuge was to say , it was overlooked by one man , and many passages wholly ... noun , results from the use of a word to which usage has given a double meaning . It may here then be said , as in ...
... nouns . Example of the verb . " The next refuge was to say , it was overlooked by one man , and many passages wholly ... noun , results from the use of a word to which usage has given a double meaning . It may here then be said , as in ...
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... tence . In languages where adjectives and substantives have correspondent changes of termination , the reader may in this way most generally determine to which noun the ad jective belongs ; but in languages , as in the 136 ON SENTENCES .
... tence . In languages where adjectives and substantives have correspondent changes of termination , the reader may in this way most generally determine to which noun the ad jective belongs ; but in languages , as in the 136 ON SENTENCES .
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... noun it is intended to qualify . There is another case , in which there is danger of ambi- guity in the use of adjectives . Sometimes , when two ad- jectives are used in connexion with the same noun , it is dif- ficult to determine ...
... noun it is intended to qualify . There is another case , in which there is danger of ambi- guity in the use of adjectives . Sometimes , when two ad- jectives are used in connexion with the same noun , it is dif- ficult to determine ...
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... noun . " The rising tomb a lofty column bore . " Did the tomb bear the column , or the column bear the tomb ? Ambiguities of this kind result from the principles of our language , which makes no distinction in termination between the ...
... noun . " The rising tomb a lofty column bore . " Did the tomb bear the column , or the column bear the tomb ? Ambiguities of this kind result from the principles of our language , which makes no distinction in termination between the ...
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