An English Grammar: For the Use of High School, Academy, and College ClassesAmerican book Company, 1895 - 349 страници |
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... notice several Name words . words used as names . The plainest name is Arabs , which belongs to a people ; but , besides this one , the words sons and master name objects , and may belong to any of those objects . The words state ...
... notice several Name words . words used as names . The plainest name is Arabs , which belongs to a people ; but , besides this one , the words sons and master name objects , and may belong to any of those objects . The words state ...
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... Notice if any have shifted from one class to another . 1. Hope springs eternal in the human breast . 2. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate . Stone walls do not a prison make , 3 . Nor iron bars a cage . 4. Truth - teller ...
... Notice if any have shifted from one class to another . 1. Hope springs eternal in the human breast . 2. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate . Stone walls do not a prison make , 3 . Nor iron bars a cage . 4. Truth - teller ...
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... fairies . Formerly , however , these words and the real ending is therefore -s . from Chaucer ( fourteenth century ) : - ended in -że , Notice these The lilie on hir stalke grene . Of maladie the 40 THE PARTS OF SPEECH .
... fairies . Formerly , however , these words and the real ending is therefore -s . from Chaucer ( fourteenth century ) : - ended in -że , Notice these The lilie on hir stalke grene . Of maladie the 40 THE PARTS OF SPEECH .
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... Notice the following : - They cannot get on without each other any more than one blade of a scissors can cut without the other . - J. L. LAUGHLIN . A relic which , if I recollect right , he pronounced to have been a tongs . — IRVING ...
... Notice the following : - They cannot get on without each other any more than one blade of a scissors can cut without the other . - J. L. LAUGHLIN . A relic which , if I recollect right , he pronounced to have been a tongs . — IRVING ...
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... Notice these three examples from Thackeray's writings : " Harry ran upstairs to his mistress's apartment ; ' " A postscript is added , as by the countess's com- mand ; " " I saw what the governess's views were of the matter . " with com ...
... Notice these three examples from Thackeray's writings : " Harry ran upstairs to his mistress's apartment ; ' " A postscript is added , as by the countess's com- mand ; " " I saw what the governess's views were of the matter . " with com ...
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abstract nouns ADDISON adverbs antecedent apposition belong Bring up sentences BULWER BURKE BYRON called CARLYLE choose chosen Coleridge common comparative complement compound connection coördinate dependent clauses DICKENS direct object EMERSON equivalent example Exercise express action feminine Find sentences following sentences gender gerund GOLDSMITH HAWTHORNE hence Imperative Mood indefinite relatives Indicative Mood infinitive inflected interrogative intransitive IRVING kind KINGSLEY language literary English MACAULAY masculine meaning Middle English modify nature neuter nominative Old English parsing past participle past tense perfect definite person or thing personal pronouns plural possessive predicate preposition Present Tense QUINCEY refer RELATIVE PRONOUNS RUSKIN SCOTT sentences containing SHAKESPEARE simple sentence singular sometimes speak spoken English stand Subjunctive Mood subordinate conjunctions superlative syntax tell tences THACKERAY thee third person thou thought tion tive transitive verb usage usually verbal weak verb word groups WORDSWORTH
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Страница 239 - ... and an obedient henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation...
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Страница 57 - Great men may jest with saints : 'tis wit in them ; But, in the less, foul profanation. Lucio. Thou'rt in the right, girl ; more o' that. Isab. That in the captain's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
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