An English Grammar: For the Use of High School, Academy, and College ClassesAmerican book Company, 1895 - 349 страници |
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... referring to flat- irons ; or , " The sailor was put in irons , " meaning chains of iron . So also we may speak of a glass to drink from or to look into ; a steel to whet a knife on ; a rubber for erasing marks ; and so on . ( 2 ) Of ...
... referring to flat- irons ; or , " The sailor was put in irons , " meaning chains of iron . So also we may speak of a glass to drink from or to look into ; a steel to whet a knife on ; a rubber for erasing marks ; and so on . ( 2 ) Of ...
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... referring to or explaining the subject : " A bent twig makes a crooked tree . " ( 3 ) In apposition with some other nominative word , adding to the meaning of that word : " The reaper Death with his sickle keen . " ( 4 ) In direct ...
... referring to or explaining the subject : " A bent twig makes a crooked tree . " ( 3 ) In apposition with some other nominative word , adding to the meaning of that word : " The reaper Death with his sickle keen . " ( 4 ) In direct ...
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... refer to a noun , pronoun , or other word or expression , and at the same time connect two statements . are also called conjunctive . They ( 4 ) Adjective pronouns , words , primarily adjec- tives , which are classed as adjectives when ...
... refer to a noun , pronoun , or other word or expression , and at the same time connect two statements . are also called conjunctive . They ( 4 ) Adjective pronouns , words , primarily adjec- tives , which are classed as adjectives when ...
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... refers to altar , which is a neuter noun . The quotation represents the usage of the early sixteenth century . 2. It's had it head bit off by it young . - SHAKESPEARE . Shakespeare uses his , it , and sometimes its , as possessive of it ...
... refers to altar , which is a neuter noun . The quotation represents the usage of the early sixteenth century . 2. It's had it head bit off by it young . - SHAKESPEARE . Shakespeare uses his , it , and sometimes its , as possessive of it ...
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... refer to a preceding word group ; thus , - If any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn or brier , which prick and scratch because they can do no other . — BACON . - Here it refers back to the ...
... refer to a preceding word group ; thus , - If any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn or brier , which prick and scratch because they can do no other . — BACON . - Here it refers back to 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 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.
Страница 29 - Right firmly pressed his heel, And thrice and four times tugged amain, Ere he wrenched out the steel. 'And see...
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