| John Seely Hart - 1878 - Liczba stron: 396
...loose sentences so as to give them a periodic character. Example.—Take the following: TVe came to onr journey's end, | at last, | with no small difficulty,...fatigue, [ through deep roads, | and bad weather. This is a very loose sentence, there being no less than fire different places, at any one of which... | |
| Luther Tracy Townsend - 1879 - Liczba stron: 262
...period is reached — should be preferred. The following is an example of an unperiodic sentence : "We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." It is rendered periodic thus : "At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep... | |
| William Swinton - 1879 - Liczba stron: 394
...addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at staku, and strong passions excited. 2. We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. 3. The wonderful invention of Homer is what principally strikes us, on whatever side we contemplate... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1881 - Liczba stron: 426
...reconstructing loose sentences so as to give them a periodic character. Example. — Take the following : We came to our journey's end, | at last, | with no...fatigue, | through deep roads, | and bad weather. This is a very loose sentence, there heing no less than five different places, at any one of which... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1884 - Liczba stron: 346
...opinion were well founded. I shall not vote for this measure, unless it is clearly constitutional. We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. There is a mixture of good and evil in every human character and transaction. Competition has produced... | |
| Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - Liczba stron: 828
...transform this into an entirely indirect sentence would not produce a satisfactory effect; as witness: At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather, we came to our journey's end. Dr. Whately, from whom we quote the first of these two arrangements,... | |
| Frederick H. Hackett, Ernest Alexander Girvin - 1884 - Liczba stron: 228
...last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather." Direct — "At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather, we came to our journey's end." The sentence first cited is thus corrected by Dr. Whately, the logician... | |
| Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - Liczba stron: 828
...of each. Take a case. It is desirable to avoid so extremely direct an arrangement as the following: We came to our journey's end. at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigne, through deep roads, and bad weather. Yet, to transform this into an entirely indirect sentence... | |
| Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - Liczba stron: 828
...of each. Take a case. It is desirable to avoid so extremely direct an arrangement as the following : We came to our journey's end. at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigne. throngh deep roads »nd bad weather. Yet, to transform this into an entirely indirect sentence... | |
| 1885 - Liczba stron: 278
..." I think it very likely," was the reply, " for I am sure you are none of God's." 3. Reconstruct: . We came to our journey's end at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. 4. Form sentences: Of mind splendor under the garb of is concealed poverty. (I) Of affectation of the... | |
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