A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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... leading proposition - a cause in spite of which what is said in the leading proposition takes place . LESSON 8 . COMPLEX SENTENCES WITH NOUN CLAUSES . Dependent clauses may perform the office of nouns . Such clauses , called noun ...
... leading proposition - a cause in spite of which what is said in the leading proposition takes place . LESSON 8 . COMPLEX SENTENCES WITH NOUN CLAUSES . Dependent clauses may perform the office of nouns . Such clauses , called noun ...
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... leading thoughts , or points , or heads , which , in the preceding Lessons , you have been writing as the special topics of the paragraphs . Upon no part of your work more than upon this will the merit of your composition or its lack of ...
... leading thoughts , or points , or heads , which , in the preceding Lessons , you have been writing as the special topics of the paragraphs . Upon no part of your work more than upon this will the merit of your composition or its lack of ...
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... leading clause , cach modified , if need be , by dependent clauses . But the thoughts of these leading clauses must be closely related , one continuing the other , in contrast with it , a consequence of it , or an inference from it ...
... leading clause , cach modified , if need be , by dependent clauses . But the thoughts of these leading clauses must be closely related , one continuing the other , in contrast with it , a consequence of it , or an inference from it ...
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