A Manual of Good EnglishGeorge Newnes, 1950 - 318 pagina's To improve writing techniques. |
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Pagina 101
... play to a manager . The manager wrote : MY DEAR SIR , I have read your play . Oh ! my dear Sir . From long ago comes to us in a Greek epitaph - which is also a good example of the epigram - an expression of weariness with the world ...
... play to a manager . The manager wrote : MY DEAR SIR , I have read your play . Oh ! my dear Sir . From long ago comes to us in a Greek epitaph - which is also a good example of the epigram - an expression of weariness with the world ...
Pagina 103
... play needs no excuse . Never excuse ; for when the players are all dead , there need none to be blamed . ( A Midsummer Night's Dream . ) ( b ) If it be true that " good wine needs no bush " , ' tis true that a good play needs no ...
... play needs no excuse . Never excuse ; for when the players are all dead , there need none to be blamed . ( A Midsummer Night's Dream . ) ( b ) If it be true that " good wine needs no bush " , ' tis true that a good play needs no ...
Pagina 173
... plays a melody upon it . See how the sounds of the phrase are echoed in varied ways through the lines : What thing ... playing with words even when the playing is prompted because of the writer's poverty of thought , or because he is ...
... plays a melody upon it . See how the sounds of the phrase are echoed in varied ways through the lines : What thing ... playing with words even when the playing is prompted because of the writer's poverty of thought , or because he is ...
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing