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... commas . An essential clause is not so separated from its context , unless it precedes the principal clause . While I am working , do not disturb me . EXERCISE 15 Tell whether the clauses in exercises 9 and 10 are essential or non ...
... commas . An essential clause is not so separated from its context , unless it precedes the principal clause . While I am working , do not disturb me . EXERCISE 15 Tell whether the clauses in exercises 9 and 10 are essential or non ...
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... comma . ( 1 ) A main idea should not be expressed in a sub- ordinate relation to a subordinate idea that is contained in a principal clause : Faulty : I was reading a novel when I began to smell smoke in the room . Improved : As I was ...
... comma . ( 1 ) A main idea should not be expressed in a sub- ordinate relation to a subordinate idea that is contained in a principal clause : Faulty : I was reading a novel when I began to smell smoke in the room . Improved : As I was ...
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... comma between the number of the day and that of the year . ( 3 ) Do not use st , th , rd , nd , with the number . ( 4 ) Do not clip the number of the year as in '26 . Write 1926 , except in the name of a school class . ( 5 ) Do not ...
... comma between the number of the day and that of the year . ( 3 ) Do not use st , th , rd , nd , with the number . ( 4 ) Do not clip the number of the year as in '26 . Write 1926 , except in the name of a school class . ( 5 ) Do not ...
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... comma : If you will go , he will go ( essential ) . Following the principal clause , the subordinate clause , if it is essential , is not set off by a comma : He will go if you will go . It is set off by a comma if it is 140 Punctuation ...
... comma : If you will go , he will go ( essential ) . Following the principal clause , the subordinate clause , if it is essential , is not set off by a comma : He will go if you will go . It is set off by a comma if it is 140 Punctuation ...
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John Earle Uhler. It is set off by a comma if it is non - essential : He may go , if he wishes . A substantive clause , unless it is an appositive , is not separated from the rest of the sentence by commas : That he has kept his word is ...
John Earle Uhler. It is set off by a comma if it is non - essential : He may go , if he wishes . A substantive clause , unless it is an appositive , is not separated from the rest of the sentence by commas : That he has kept his word is ...
Common terms and phrases
ABBREVIATIONS accusative Accusative-dative Genitive SINGULAR adjectival adjective adverb adverbial clause antecedent apposition better bird brother change in form comma complex sentence containing considered coordinate Dative example exclamation EXERCISE expletive expressions Faulty feminine Fill the blank final consonant following sentences form the genitive Genitive SINGULAR NUMBER gerund grammatical Harry hyphen idiom Incorrect infinitive phrase interrogative intransitive John kind linking verb logical conjunction masculine modifies mood never nominative absolute Nominative Accusative-dative Genitive non-essential non-modal form NOTE noun object omitted parentheses and explain passive Past future perfect past participle PAST PERFECT past tense plural number preposition present participle present perfect principal clauses punctuation relative pronoun Second person simple singular number Smith structural conjunction student subject substantive subjunctive subjunctive mood subordinate clause substantive clause suffix tell thing Third person thought tion tive transitive verb usually verb phrase wanted Write a complex written The letter Wrong
Popular passages
Page 12 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 159 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 159 - If England were swallowed up by the sea to-morrow, which of the two, a hundred years hence, would most excite the love, interest, and admiration of mankind, — would most, therefore, show the evidences of having possessed greatness, — the England of the last twenty years, or the England of Elizabeth, of a time of splendid spiritual effort, but when our coal, and our industrial operations depending on coal, were very little developed?
Page 21 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny ; but content myself with wishing — that I may be one of those whose follies cease with their youth ; and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
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Page 83 - THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears.
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Page 64 - Some of you delight to flaunt in our faces the warning against sectional parties given by Washington in his Farewell Address. Less than eight years before Washington gave that warning he had, as President of the United States, approved and signed an act of Congress enforcing the prohibition of slavery in the Northwestern Territory, which act embodied the policy of the government upon that subject up to and at the very moment he penned that warning ; and about one year after he penned it, he wrote...
Page 136 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 15 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...