Composition - Rhetoric - Literature: A Four Years' Course for Secondary Schools. Book One: First and Second YearsB.H. Sanborn & Company, 1921 - 622 ページ |
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adjective adverbs arguments asked beautiful boys called Second Person called thou character clear coherence color conjunction dear debate definition diction dictionary example EXERCISE exposition expression flowers following extract following passage give grammar green heard HENRY DAVID THOREAU idea indicate John John Keats JOHN RUSKIN kind language Latin letter literature look meaning modifies narrative NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE never night noun paragraph participle past tense PERFECT TENSE periodic sentence phrases plural predicate preposition pronoun punctuation quotation relative pronoun ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON RUDYARD KIPLING rules Samuel Johnson Second Jungle Book side sometimes sound speak speech spelling story student Study the following SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD subordinate clause tell tences TENSE First Person theme things Third Person thought tion topic sentence tree verb voice walk words write written
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