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... paragraph to follow will be about a particular hotel . In the preceding paragraph other Wash- ington hotels of the era had been described . Willard's , however , seems to call for special treatment , and the new paragraph promises to ...
... paragraph to follow will be about a particular hotel . In the preceding paragraph other Wash- ington hotels of the era had been described . Willard's , however , seems to call for special treatment , and the new paragraph promises to ...
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... paragraph . In the first paragraph Willard's is seen , from sentence to sentence , through the eyes of the objective historian . But in the second paragraph , for the sake of seeing her material from a special angle , the historian puts ...
... paragraph . In the first paragraph Willard's is seen , from sentence to sentence , through the eyes of the objective historian . But in the second paragraph , for the sake of seeing her material from a special angle , the historian puts ...
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... paragraph . The " normal " modern paragraph contains anywhere from three to eight sen- tences . The shortest paragraphs are those in newspapers , popular maga- zines , and advertisements - the sort of writing that will not be read at ...
... paragraph . The " normal " modern paragraph contains anywhere from three to eight sen- tences . The shortest paragraphs are those in newspapers , popular maga- zines , and advertisements - the sort of writing that will not be read at ...
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Denotation and Connotation | 1 |
Diction | 55 |
Other Determinants of Tone | 130 |
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