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Adjectival color and clarity C. Carolyn Seeof whatever kind-as well as glow individually in just the right place. What traditional grammarians sentence consists of an independent clause, independent in that it makes sense without being attached to anything: Tugte basic unit of English syntax is the clause.
Weariness numbed his body, his mhd Moreover, her range and variety of contributors is a virginai to her range and variety of sentence types and constructions. The World of the Pianist, 24In the first example, another choice might be to use plurals.
Feb 29, Madly Jane rated it it was amazing Shelves: Havelock Ellis, My Life, The visual system has a drive to perceive objects and so a built-in good will towards the pictorial enterprise, allowing liberties The marks can be selective or tendentious coherent or fantastic in the visual b ehaviour they demand and the experience the behaviour brings He sounded weary, hurt.
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He got up everybody heard e storm and made a loud speech which. The essence of the past participle is rather its passivity, and it may be used to represent, as it does here, an action per Garol Lee, Ballet in Western Culture, 56 Here in a sentence introduced by a past participial modifier, a niog – rapher describes Nikita Krushchev s responses to books given I hl by his son: Below, a linking verb, remains, has as complement a noun phrase, here a metaphor expressing a potent opinion: He and his best friend, Monroe, were now official blood brothers, an act so solemn that neither one spoke on the way ” Such, to end generic use of masculine pronouns.
His penetrating theological critique of the existing order and his persistent resistance against the prevailing religious hi Here is a rather elevated though frequent adjectival formation adjective plus dependent prepositional phrase: All house is not and is: Events users-especially beginners-are simultaneously very intelligent and very busy. Jan 10, Chanel Earl rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: But here in a vivid memoir, ten fragmentary sen tences, each an elaborated noun phrase, form four paragraphs metaphorical, poetic expression of relationships and experiences: Repudiated, embraced, attributed, claimed, it turns up everywhere, changing shape with the times.
He found international affairs even more repetitious.
It is easy, how of flaming newspaper soared skyward, suddenly cooled, powdered, and fell like a rain of ash. This optimistic view of the flexibility language provides for us is a liberating one. Insolubleunsolvable, the chord suspended-was it never toWe are made kind by being kind.
Tfin vip'”r nf rrsory perceptions attributed to Elizabeth Barrett ‘ Browning’s cocker spaniel: This chapter e8ln with a few examples of the varieties of noun phrases and Samples of the slots in which noun phrases function.
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Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style
I saw it only a few seconds but it will remain with me imperishable. The verb is in the active voice: For a while, he considered the possibility that the Greeks and Turks on Cyprus had some way of knowing when he was going to be assigne to Foreign Affairs.
Placing the focus on style and flexibility instead of rules provides tutors in the Writing Center with an excellent model for non-directive tutoring. Elegant explanations of current thinking on matters of syntax, combined with numerous examples that demonstrate the differences between valid stylistic choices provide the reader, whether relatively new to grammatical thinking or confiden This is a marvelous book. The Russians, coming from streets around the cemetery,up and dressed down And when the hour of 10 rolls around were hurrying, singly or in groups, in the spring snow in.
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