The essentials of formal compositionOxford University Press, 1927 |
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Página 14
... round a thing in the narrative and the argument we think straight on . Step Step Time Step Step Step 1. Narrative . 2. Argumentative . 7 Subject 3. Descriptive . Nevertheless the order of the thoughts is not to be 14 THE ESSAY 1 ...
... round a thing in the narrative and the argument we think straight on . Step Step Time Step Step Step 1. Narrative . 2. Argumentative . 7 Subject 3. Descriptive . Nevertheless the order of the thoughts is not to be 14 THE ESSAY 1 ...
Página 15
... round the subject the ideas that come . We shall have to depend for their best order on our own control of language and sense of fitting things together . There should be , how- ever , one line of observation running through the whole ...
... round the subject the ideas that come . We shall have to depend for their best order on our own control of language and sense of fitting things together . There should be , how- ever , one line of observation running through the whole ...
Página 32
... section on the lines of the plan ( p . 12 ) : It is quite natural that our games should be arranged according to the seasons of the year more than our work . We have to do our work all the year round 32 WRITING THE ESSAY.
... section on the lines of the plan ( p . 12 ) : It is quite natural that our games should be arranged according to the seasons of the year more than our work . We have to do our work all the year round 32 WRITING THE ESSAY.
Página 33
... round , but we can arrange our games according to the temperature or the weather . The winter weather makes us play indoor games , the only games we play outdoors in the winter are those in which we run about and get warm . Summer is ...
... round , but we can arrange our games according to the temperature or the weather . The winter weather makes us play indoor games , the only games we play outdoors in the winter are those in which we run about and get warm . Summer is ...
Página 34
... round , but we can arrange our games according to the temperature and the weather . Our outdoor games in winter are those in which we can run about and get warm . Daylight goes early , and the darkness drives us to indoor pastimes and ...
... round , but we can arrange our games according to the temperature and the weather . Our outdoor games in winter are those in which we can run about and get warm . Daylight goes early , and the darkness drives us to indoor pastimes and ...
Términos y frases comunes
actual adjective adverb antonyms Arabs arrangement beautiful beginning Black Prince Castlewood clause clear colour construction Coriolanus cricket Daylight Saving definite descriptive essay detail dictionary difference direct speech Dthemetri Edward Edward III English examples EXERCISES expression faults following passages gipsies give grammar horse hundred idea idiom illustrate imagination incident Lady of Shalott lane language Latin live look loose mad dog malapropism meaning mighty heart mind natural never night Nominative Absolute noun OLIVER GOLDSMITH onomatopoeia original Orpheus ourselves outdoor paragraph paraphrase Philistine phrase Piraeus play popularity précis pronoun prose re-express Re-tell reading relative pronoun remember roads rough draft round sense signpost simple Sirens sound story suggest Summer Games tell thee thing thou thought tion trees Tudor Period unto verb village vivid vocabulary weather whole wind winter words writing
Pasajes populares
Página 22 - And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first one said unto him, 'I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Página 21 - And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him : for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
Página 63 - I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries...
Página 57 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Página 113 - I am a solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to...
Página 8 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 112 - Nay, not the King, but the King's Jester, thou Henceforth shalt wear the bells and scalloped cape, And for thy counsellor shalt lead an ape; Thou shalt obey my servants when they call, And wait upon my henchmen in the hall!
Página 21 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Página 68 - ... principal difficulty was to raise and place me in this vehicle. Eighty poles, each of one foot high, were erected for this purpose, and very strong cords of the bigness of packthread were fastened by hooks to many bandages, which the workmen had girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs. Nine hundred of the strongest men...
Página 111 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.