Language Reader
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217010658
Paperback|9780217010658
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Spelling. ? Majestic, enormous, countenance, prophecy, murmured, resemblance. Synonyms. ? Notice the way Hawthorne has used these words and be able to give sentences containing them. When you learn a new word, remember to use it whenever it is suitable in your conversation or writing. Notice that Hawthorne has used a great many names for one thing. See how many synonyms you can find in this lesson for the word face. It is not well to repeat a word too often. Try to remember this in your compositions. Remember also that synonyms have very seldom exactly the same meaning. Try to choose the word that most nearly expresses your meaning. Notice how carefully Hawthorne has chosen his words. Use two simple words in place of Titanic visage. Is Hawthorne's expression better here ? Can you find another case in which the author uses a less simple but more beautiful expression than you would have done? Notice that Hawthorne says that the story had been murmured by the mountain stream and whispered among the tree tops. What is the difference between murmuring and whispering ? Would it have been better to have had the story whispered by the streams and murmured by the trees ? Or, simply told by the streams and the trees ? Composition. ? You have learned how to write quotations. Remember if you are writing a conversation to put what each person says in a separate paragraph, whether he says little or much. In repeating another's words you may either use them exactly or give the substance of what he has said in your own words. The first is called a direct quotation; the second, an indirect quotation. Indirect quotations do not require quotation marks. Do not use direct quotations too often. It would sound strange in ordinary conversation always, in repeating what ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217010658 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217010652 |
| Weight | 1.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.02 In |
| List Price | $20.03 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 458 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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