 | George Rice Carpenter - English language - 1893 - 240 pages
...student how simple a matter it usually is to change a periodic sentence into a loose sentence : LOOSE. We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather. This was forbidden by taste, as well as by judgment. This disposition saves him from offending his... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - English language - 1895 - 390 pages
...sentences. Yet, in any case, to end a sentence with a number of modifiers makes it limp badly ; eg : We came to our journey's end at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. This can be improved in various ways ; eg : At last, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 452 pages
...the periodic. Sometimes the best form is that which is neither wholly loose nor wholly periodic. " We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." "At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather, we came... | |
 | Frederick Coate Wade - Catholic Church Education Manitoba - 1895 - 168 pages
...less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and prosperity, of danger and hazard in it." (b) " We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather." 3. Write an article, suitable for a newspaper or magazine on any one of the following : — "The Egyptian... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 452 pages
...end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." " At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather, we came to our journey's end." The loose form of this sentence is objectionable because it is so very... | |
 | William B. Cairns - English language - 1896 - 382 pages
...following sentence, on which Whately, Spencer, and others have expended much ingenuity: Wholly loose : " We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." „ Wholly periodic : " At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads and... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - English language - 1896 - 492 pages
...following. — In their prosperity, my friends shall never hear of me; in their adversity, always. — We came to our journey's end at last with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. — The wise man is happy when he gains his own approbation; the fool, when he recommends himself to... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - Oratory - 1898 - 216 pages
...intention, the sense is imperfect without that which follows. Take, for example, this sentence : " We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." Take any part of this sentence terminating with a comma, and if you look no farther than that part... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English language - 1898 - 412 pages
...effectively as possible the various elements of the following sentence (quoted from Whately's Rhetoric): We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. 3. Choose the best among the six possible arrangements of the following three sections of a sentence.... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - Preaching - 1898 - 638 pages
...no small difficulty, to our journey's end." Contrast this with what is called the loose arrangement: "We came to our journey's end at last, with no small...difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather."1 Here the sense would be complete, and the sentence might end, at any one of the five points... | |
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We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather. 
