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Sequence Of Person Remember that the first person takes precedence of the second... Expressive Of Writer Style is expressive of the writer, as to who he is and what h... Participles Present Past Perfect ... Diction The first requisite of style is choice of words, and this com... Present Tense Sing. Plural ... Ten Greatest English Poets Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Kea... Conjunction A conjunction joins words, clauses and sentences; as "John an... Choice Of Words In another place in this book advice has been given to ...

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