Modern Punctuation: Its Utilities and ConventionsOxford University Press, 1919 - 265 من الصفحات |
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... effects of the different punctuation marks ; but the pointing of a sentence in action is a special case which may have to be settled on the spot . The relation between punctuation and the larger units of composition has been obscured by ...
... effects of the different punctuation marks ; but the pointing of a sentence in action is a special case which may have to be settled on the spot . The relation between punctuation and the larger units of composition has been obscured by ...
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... effects on move- ment , whatever the writer's intention . It is clear , for example , that in cases of parenthesis com- mas do not suggest the same rhythmical effect as curves or dashes ; that the compounding semicolon is not the same in ...
... effects on move- ment , whatever the writer's intention . It is clear , for example , that in cases of parenthesis com- mas do not suggest the same rhythmical effect as curves or dashes ; that the compounding semicolon is not the same in ...
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... effect upon movement . C. H. WARD . " Punctator Gingriens " : A Call to Arms . English Journal , September , 1915 , pp . 451-457 . Mr. Ward's article is an admirable criticism of Wilson's Treatise on Punctuation and of its minor ...
... effect upon movement . C. H. WARD . " Punctator Gingriens " : A Call to Arms . English Journal , September , 1915 , pp . 451-457 . Mr. Ward's article is an admirable criticism of Wilson's Treatise on Punctuation and of its minor ...
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... effect what would ⚫therwise be difficult . They save transition words , as when they make it unnecessary to say ... effects and economies are practically condi- tioned on the use of the customary signals . Marks rightly used keep the ...
... effect what would ⚫therwise be difficult . They save transition words , as when they make it unnecessary to say ... effects and economies are practically condi- tioned on the use of the customary signals . Marks rightly used keep the ...
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... effect of structural grouping , but as a rule the distinctions are clear . The structural points are far less subject to rule than editorial or word points . They are more difficult , and for both meaning and emphasis are usually more ...
... effect of structural grouping , but as a rule the distinctions are clear . The structural points are far less subject to rule than editorial or word points . They are more difficult , and for both meaning and emphasis are usually more ...
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abbreviation according adjectives adverbial afterthought anticipatory apostrophe appositive Arnold Bennett average number Bennett brackets capitals chapter Chesterton clause break colon comma with dash compound sentence conjunction Crothers curves distinct division hyphen editorial effect ellipsis elliptical emphasis emphatic enclosed Erewhon exclamation mark exclamation point expressions following sentence formal G. K. Chesterton grammatical connective interpolated interrogative italic Literature Lounsbury main clause meaning modern modifier movement newspaper North American Review noun number of points omission omitted ordinary paragraph paren parenthesis parenthetical clauses parenthetical matter parenthetical points Paul Elmer phrase points per sentence practice preceding printers punctuation marks question and exclamation question mark quotation quote marks reader reference relation relative clause rhetorical rule Saturday Evening Post says seldom semicolon sentence points series point sion sometimes structural points style book subordinate suspension periods tence terminal point thing tion usually verb white space words writers York York Evening Post York Tribune
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الصفحة 122 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy.
الصفحة 128 - It will be all the easier for us to conduct ourselves as belligerents in a high spirit of right and fairness because we act without animus, not in enmity towards a people or with the desire to bring any injury or disadvantage upon them, but only in armed opposition to an irresponsible government which has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and of right and is running amuck.
الصفحة 129 - Indeed it is now evident that its spies were here even before the war began; and it is unhappily not a matter of conjecture but a fact proved in our courts of justice that the intrigues which have more than once come perilously near to disturbing the peace and dislocating the industries of the country have been carried on at the instigation, with the support, and even under the personal direction of official agents of the Imperial Government accredited to the Government of the United States.
الصفحة 118 - It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace...
الصفحة 46 - Say what you have to say, what you have a will to say, in the simplest, the most direct and exact manner possible, with no surplusage: — there, is the justification of the sentence so fortunately born, "entire, smooth, and round...
الصفحة 46 - The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
الصفحة 120 - It will involve the utmost practicable cooperation in counsel and action with the governments now at war with Germany, and, as incident to that, the extension to those governments of the most liberal financial credits, in order that our resources may so far as possible be added to theirs. It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical...
الصفحة 118 - There is, therefore, but one response possible from us: Force, Force to the utmost, Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world, and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust.
الصفحة 127 - In such a program our ideals, the ideals of justice and humanity and liberty, the principle of the free self-determination of nations upon which all the modern world insists, can play no part. They are rejected for the ideals of power, for the principle that the strong must rule the weak, that trade must follow the flag, whether those to whom it is taken welcome it or not ; that the peoples of the world are to be made subject to the patronage and overlordship of those who have the power to enforce...
الصفحة 161 - Of joy and grief the past is the object, and the future of hope and fear; even love and hatred respect the past, for the cause must have been before the effect.