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| ex) Farmer Jones has two hundred head of cattle and three hired hands. |
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| ex) This land belongs to the crown. |
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| ex) You better hop to it if we're going to make it in time for the movie. |
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| ex) Hitting that telephone pole certainly didn't do your car any good. |
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| ex) "Cowards die many times before their deaths." (Julius Caesar) |
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| ex) yesterday, the man went to his eternal rest. |
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| ex) "the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster" (Noah Sweat's "Whiskey Speech"). |
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| ex) "Pontius Pilate, God will not let you wash your hands of this!" (John Proctor, The Crucible) |
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| ex) "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." |
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| ex)"There were frowzy fields, and cow-houses, and dunghills, and ditches, and gardens, at the very door of the Railway." |
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| ex) "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." (On the Road) |
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| ex)"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." (Joseph Addison) |
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| ex) "I'm not afraid to die...I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love." |
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| loose sentence(cumulative) |
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| ex) Aruba is a vacationer's paradise, with its pristine beaches, sun-drenched days, and glorious breathtaking sunsets. |
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| ex)"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius." |
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| ex)She broke his car and his heart. |
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| ex)"You most likely need a thesaurus, a ridiculing grammar book, and a grip on reality." (Margaret Atwood) |
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| ex)"Be sincere, be brief, be seated." (FDR) |
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| ex)"Success makes men proud; failure makes them wise." |
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| ex)I lead the life I love; I love the life I lead. |
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| ex)There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them." |
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| ex)The cars do not sell because the engineering in inferior, the quality of materials is inferior, and the workmanship is inferior. |
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| ex)"In silent night when rest I took,/For sorrow near I did not look..." (Anne Bradstreet) |
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ex)Premise: This dog always barks when there is someone at the door, and the dog didn't bark.
Conclusion: There's no one at the door. |
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| ex)All dogs are mammals. A Labrador is a dog. Therefore, a Labrador is a mammal. |
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| ex) Crimes are often solved through inductive reasoning. Evidence is gathered and analyzed, and then a theory or generalization is made about who did it. |
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| ex) Letting prisoners out on early release is like absolving them of their crimes. |
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| ex)You can't trust Jones's theory of electromagnetic particles because he's a communist. |
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| ex)Tens of thousands of Americans have seen lights in the night sky which they could not identify. The existence of life on other planets is fast becoming certainty. |
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| ex)If you don't support the war, then you are on the side of the terrorists. |
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ex)Democrats and Republicans never get along with each other, so you and Steve will not like each other since he is a Republican and you are a Democrat.
(Kind of like a stereotype) |
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| post hoc, ergo prompter hoc |
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| ex)Roosters crow right before the sunrise. Therefore, the roosters' crowing causes the sun to rise. |
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| ex)A desire for tougher gun control laws is just out of step with true American patriotism and values. |
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| ex)If we legalize marijuana, then more people would start to take crack and heroin, and we'd have to legalize those too. Before long, we'd have a nation full of drug-addicts on welfare. |
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| ex) Ghosts are real because I've had experiences with them myself. |
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| ex)If such actions were not illegal, then they would not be prohibited by law. |
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| ex)Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us completey defenseless like that. |
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| ex)My roommate said her philosophy class was hard, and the one I'm in is hard, too. Philosophy is just impossible to understand! |
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| reductive fallacy (oversimplification) |
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| ex)The school shooters played violent video games, so that caused them to be violent. |
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| ex)There is a lot of commotion regarding saving the environment. We cannot make this world an Eden. What will happen if it does become an Eden? Adam and Eve got bored there! |
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| ex)According to Oprah, Gleem is the best toothpaste for your teeth. |
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| argument ad populum/bandwagon |
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| ex)Hundreds of millions of people have been Christians, devoutly following it and even dying for it. How could that be possible if Christianity weren't true? |
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