A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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... question introduced into a sentence is one in which the exact words and their order in an interroga tive sentence are preserved , and which is followed by an interrogation point ; and an indirect question is one re- ferred to as a question ...
... question introduced into a sentence is one in which the exact words and their order in an interroga tive sentence are preserved , and which is followed by an interrogation point ; and an indirect question is one re- ferred to as a question ...
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... question , the de- bater arrays all the facts and arguments he can find which support his position , and talks not so much to give knowledge as to establish his proposition . What the preparation for the debate and the discussion of the ...
... question , the de- bater arrays all the facts and arguments he can find which support his position , and talks not so much to give knowledge as to establish his proposition . What the preparation for the debate and the discussion of the ...
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... question of the hour , agitating men's minds , or some older topic that can never be exhausted or cease to interest . If the sub- ject has in it this human element , and , in addition , is a question upon which men are not at one , so ...
... question of the hour , agitating men's minds , or some older topic that can never be exhausted or cease to interest . If the sub- ject has in it this human element , and , in addition , is a question upon which men are not at one , so ...
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