Aids to English Composition

Harper & Bros., Publishers, 1845 - English language - 50 pages

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Objects and their parts Objects their qualities and uses	2

Objects their parts qualities properties uses and appendages	3

Events Events	4

Objects and Events	5

Names	6

Simple Dialogue or Conversation	7

Words	15

Of Phrases Clauses and Sentences	17

Use of Words Phrases and Clauses in the expan sion of an idea	21

Of the Parts and Adjuncts of a Sentence	22

Of Capital Letters	25

Of Punctuation	27

Derivation and Composition of Words	34

Synonymes	40

Methods of Inversion and Transposition	50

Formation of Compound Sentences from Simple ones rrrrrr	58

Of the English Language	61

Periphrase Periphrasis or Circumlocution Eu phemism and Antonomasia	63

Tautology and Catachresis	69

Pleonasm Verbosity and Redundancy	71

Variety of Expression	73

Translation or Conversion of Poetry into Prose	76

Anagrams	86

Of Grammatical Propriety	88

On the selection of Words and Expressions	92

Of the Construction of Sentences	93

Of Clearness	94

Of Unity	96

Of the Strength of a Sentence	97

Of the Harmony of a Sentence	99

Onomatopeia or Sound adapted to the Sense	104

Figurative Language	111

Title	Aids to English Composition Issue 6 of Educational tracts
Author	Richard Green Parker
Edition	20
Publisher	Harper & Bros., Publishers, 1845
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	7 Dec 2007
Length	50 pages

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Pastoral and Elegiac Poetry	289

Style	300

Directions to Students in revising and correct PAGE ing their Compositions	303

Marks used by Printers in correcting the Press	310

Technical Terms relating to Books 313 LXXXIV Obituary Notice	314

Critical Notice	317

Criticism	318

Biographical Sketch	322

College Exercises	324

Essay Treatise Tract Thesis	329

College Poem	336

Dissertation	338

Disquisition	341

Discussions	344

34	347

Disputations	355

Orations	361

Bowdoin Prize Dissertation	381

On the Composition of a Sermon	390

Subjects for Composition of all kinds	399

97	400

List of Works consulted in the preparation of this Volume	419

Index of Subjects noticed in this Work	420

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