An English Grammar: For the Use of High School, Academy, and College ClassesAmerican book Company, 1895 - 349 страници |
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... group . When the meaning of each of these words has once been understood , the word naming it will always call up the thing or idea itself . Such words are called nouns . 2. A noun is a name word , representing directly Definition . to ...
... group . When the meaning of each of these words has once been understood , the word naming it will always call up the thing or idea itself . Such words are called nouns . 2. A noun is a name word , representing directly Definition . to ...
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... groups : the name itself is of general appli- cation . Besides considering persons , animals , and things separately , we may think of them in groups , and give appropriate names to the groups . Thus , men in groups may be called a ...
... groups : the name itself is of general appli- cation . Besides considering persons , animals , and things separately , we may think of them in groups , and give appropriate names to the groups . Thus , men in groups may be called a ...
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... groups may be called a crowd , or a mob , a committee , or a council , or a congress , etc. These are called COLLECTIVE NOUNS . They properly belong under common nouns , because each group is considered as a unit , and the name applied ...
... groups may be called a crowd , or a mob , a committee , or a council , or a congress , etc. These are called COLLECTIVE NOUNS . They properly belong under common nouns , because each group is considered as a unit , and the name applied ...
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... groups of each of the following individual nouns : — man horse bird fish partridge pupil bee soldier worshiper book sailor child sheep ship ruffian 4. Using a dictionary , tell from what word each of these abstract nouns is derived ...
... groups of each of the following individual nouns : — man horse bird fish partridge pupil bee soldier worshiper book sailor child sheep ship ruffian 4. Using a dictionary , tell from what word each of these abstract nouns is derived ...
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... groups . For further discussion see the remarks on articles ( p . 119 ) . 14. Proper nouns are used as common in either Proper names of two ways : ( 1 ) The origin of a thing is used for the thing itself : that is , the name of the ...
... groups . For further discussion see the remarks on articles ( p . 119 ) . 14. Proper nouns are used as common in either Proper names of two ways : ( 1 ) The origin of a thing is used for the thing itself : that is , the name of the ...
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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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Страница 96 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since, their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage: their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves play.
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