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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: CHAPTER III STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES Having begun to treat of style, in the last lecture I considered its fundamental quality, perspicuity. What I have said of this relates chiefly to the choice of words. Prom words I proceed to sentences; and as, in all writing and discourse, the proper composition and structure of sentences is of the highest importance, I shall treat of this fully. Tho perspicuity be the general head under which I, at present, consider languages, I shall not confine myself to this quality alone in sentences, but shall inquire also what is requisite for their grace and beauty: that I may bring together, under one view, all that seems necessary to be attended to in the construction and arrangement of words in a sentence. It is not easy to give an exact definition of a sentence, or period, further than as it always implies some one complete proposition or enunciation of thought. Aristotle's definition is, in the main, a good one: A form of speech which has a beginning and an end within itself, and is of such a length as to be easily comprehended at once. This, however, admits of great latitude. For a sentence, or period, consists always of component parts, which are called its members; and as these members may be either few or many, and may be connected in several different ways, the same thought, or mental proposition, may often be either brought into one sentence, or split into two or three, without the material breach of any rule. The first variety that occurs in the consideration of sentences, is the distinction of long and short ones. The precise length of sentences, as to the number of words, or the number of members, which may enter int them, can not be ascertained by any definite measure. At the same time, it is obvious, there may be an extreme on ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217010733 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217010733 |
| Weight | 0.27 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.18 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 74 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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