A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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... modifier ; as , At Yorktown , the Revolution ended . Without its prep- osition the noun may be used adverbially and ... modifier ; as , The way to be forgiven is revealed ; ( 4 ) an explanatory modifier ; as , This duty , to obey , is ...
... modifier ; as , At Yorktown , the Revolution ended . Without its prep- osition the noun may be used adverbially and ... modifier ; as , The way to be forgiven is revealed ; ( 4 ) an explanatory modifier ; as , This duty , to obey , is ...
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... modifier be modified . In writing observe these rules also : - THE COMMA - Set off by the comma ( 3 ) a phrase which is out of its natural order or is not closely connected with the word it modifies ; and ( 4 ) a participle used as an ...
... modifier be modified . In writing observe these rules also : - THE COMMA - Set off by the comma ( 3 ) a phrase which is out of its natural order or is not closely connected with the word it modifies ; and ( 4 ) a participle used as an ...
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... modifiers form- ing what , taken as a whole , we have called a compound modifier . You have seen , too , that one modifier may be modified by another , the whole forming a complex word or phrase modifier . You are now to see that ...
... modifiers form- ing what , taken as a whole , we have called a compound modifier . You have seen , too , that one modifier may be modified by another , the whole forming a complex word or phrase modifier . You are now to see that ...
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