A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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... paragraph . Sometimes a single sentence , sufficiently developing the point , forms a paragraph . The paragraph is exceeding ly useful , if not absolutely necessary , in announcing to the reader where the development of a point begins ...
... paragraph . Sometimes a single sentence , sufficiently developing the point , forms a paragraph . The paragraph is exceeding ly useful , if not absolutely necessary , in announcing to the reader where the development of a point begins ...
Page 61
... paragraphs of three sentences each , placing the facts in their proper relation and supplying what is needed , and write on the first line of each paragraph the topic it develops : - The same elements in flesh as in flour . In animals ...
... paragraphs of three sentences each , placing the facts in their proper relation and supplying what is needed , and write on the first line of each paragraph the topic it develops : - The same elements in flesh as in flour . In animals ...
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... PARAGRAPHS AND OF PARAGRAPHS INTO A THEME . THE THEME.You have seen that just as words , phrases , and clauses may be joined in sentences , and sentences , jointly developing a point , or thought , may be united into a paragraph , so ...
... PARAGRAPHS AND OF PARAGRAPHS INTO A THEME . THE THEME.You have seen that just as words , phrases , and clauses may be joined in sentences , and sentences , jointly developing a point , or thought , may be united into a paragraph , so ...
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