English for Business: As Applied in Commercial, Technical, and Other Secondary SchoolsNewson, 1916 - 440 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
adjective adverb advertising aeroplane arrangement automobile bank boys business letter called certified check Chapter clause Clay Society climax comma Company complimentary close composition Dear Sir denote dependent clause effect envelope Exercise express fire following sentences form letter garbage give Grinnell high school ideas illustration inches inclosing indorsed interest Jere Wooding letter sheet machine marabout Mass means ment method modify motion narrative paragraph newspaper noun Oral and Written outline paper Pelée person Pluperfect Tense Portsmouth Square praised Plural praised Singular praised Thou present President principal pronoun punctuation purpose relation reply secure Select skid speech story Street strips T. H. Huxley telephone tence Tense Singular Théophile Delcassé thought tion topic sentence town typewriter usually verb WALTER DILL SCOTT whomever wish words Write a letter York
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Página 173 - 4. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. PHILIP J. BAILEY 5. To the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. 6. The mountains look on Marathon,
Página 110 - the rocks. MATTHEW ARNOLD As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honor him; but as he was ambitious, I slew him. Exercise
Página 54 - Then from a neighboring thicket the mocking bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.
Página 171 - To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep
Página 237 - If, in the darkness, wife was separated from husband, or parent from child, vain was the hope of reunion. Each hurried blindly and confusedly on. Nothing in all the various and complicated machinery of social life was left save the primal law of self-preservation.
Página 93 - them that we are concerned. 2. The Use of Capitals. — Capitals are used for: 1. The first word of every sentence. 2. The first word of every line of poetry. 3. The first word of a formal statement or resolution. Resolved: That
Página 171 - the picture is complete; the final piece to be fitted is needed to secure the complete effect. Because of this element of suspense, a periodic sentence is more emphatic than a loose sentence. Examples of effective periodic sentences: To write naturally is the same thing in regard to common conversation as to read naturally is in regard to common speech.
Página 114 - We looked in his Bible, and there was a slip of paper at the place where he had marked the text:— "They desire a country, even a heavenly . . .
Página 185 - by the dwelling, and gazed down — but with a shudder more thrilling than before — upon the remodeled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.
Página 173 - Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third may profit by their example.