Loose or Unemphatic Structure= Make the following sentences more emphatic by throwing them into periodic form.
The word or word-group in a sentence which makes an assertion about the subject.
Well, I must pay America a visit," he said with an unemphatic smile.
Didn't her prose, with its unemphatic evenness, imply that some enthusiasms went quite without saying and that some questions were quite disposed of for talk just because they were so firmly established for action?
Unemphatic words must, as a rule, be kept from the end of the sentence.
It is a common fault to break this rule by placing a short and unemphatic predicate at the end of a long sentence.
It is a violation of the principle of Suspense to introduce unexpectedly, at the end of a long sentence, some short and unemphatic clause beginning with (a) " .
The breve is properly a mark of short quantity, only when it is set over an unaccented syllable or an unemphatic monosyllable, as it often is in the scanning of verses.
A Pleonasm, as perhaps in these instances, is sometimes impressive and elegant; but an unemphatic repetition of the same idea, is one of the worst faults of bad writing.
This appears to be right in sense, but because brevity is desirable in unemphatic particles, I suppose most persons would say, "split in two.
The hour with Geoffrey was like a poultice on his wound--so mild andunemphatic was it.
Relief, as unanalyzed, came with the thought that there would be no beauty in Felicia's stubborn yet unemphatic fidelity; no claim for sympathy.
That is, the short or unemphaticsyllable precedes the long or emphatic syllable.
A Regular Metre is Rare Metre is the arrangement of emphatic and unemphatic syllables in verse on a measured plan, and is attained by the use of short syllables of speech varied in different rotations by long syllables.
Because the normal combinations of the emphatic and the unemphaticsyllables of the English language are but five, there are only five different poetic measures.
A good instance of the unemphaticending is the last act of Sir Arthur Pinero's Letty.
Mr. Galsworthy's more delicate and unemphatic art eludes this danger, at any rate in Strife.
By an "unemphatic ending" I am far from meaning a makeshift ending, an ending carelessly and conventionally huddled up.
In the works of Mr. Henry Arthur Jones we find several instances of the unemphatic last act--some clearly justified, others much less so.
It is surely much better that they should be brought to their natural unemphatic ending, than that they should be either falsified or ignored.
Even the lank, straw-coloured hair hardly showed the streaks of yellow-white that offered their unemphatic clue to Wark's age.
In a complex sentence, consisting of a main and a relative sentence, #quisque# is usually expressed but once, and then in the unemphatic relative sentence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unemphatic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: inconspicuous; obscure; unemotional
