Aids to English Composition Prepared for Students of All Grades

accent acute accent admiration adverb Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty Cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence connexion derived earth effect English English language Example 2d exercise expression father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently genius give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination influence kind labor language Latin Latin language letter literary literature look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs Philosophical phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology tence thing third persons thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue words writer written young