An English Grammar: For the Use of High School, Academy, and College ClassesAmerican book Company, 1895 - 349 страници |
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... usage in all disputed cases . Free expression within the lines of good usage should have widest range . - It has been our aim to make a grammar of as wide a scope as is consist- ent with the proper definition of the word . Therefore ...
... usage in all disputed cases . Free expression within the lines of good usage should have widest range . - It has been our aim to make a grammar of as wide a scope as is consist- ent with the proper definition of the word . Therefore ...
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... usage which we ought to follow . ( 3 ) It is concerned with the forms of the lan- guage . ( 4 ) English has no grammar in the sense of forms , or inflections , but takes account merely of the nature and the uses of words in sentences ...
... usage which we ought to follow . ( 3 ) It is concerned with the forms of the lan- guage . ( 4 ) English has no grammar in the sense of forms , or inflections , but takes account merely of the nature and the uses of words in sentences ...
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... Usage is varied as our way of thinking changes . In Chaucer's time two or three negatives were used to strengthen a negation ; as , " Ther nas no man nowher so vertuous " ( There never was no man nowhere so virtuous ) . And Shakespeare ...
... Usage is varied as our way of thinking changes . In Chaucer's time two or three negatives were used to strengthen a negation ; as , " Ther nas no man nowher so vertuous " ( There never was no man nowhere so virtuous ) . And Shakespeare ...
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... usage , though not confined to verse . Next Anger rushed ; his eyes , on fire , In lightnings owned his secret stings . — COLLINS . Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind . - BYRON . Death , his mask melting like a nightmare dream ...
... usage , though not confined to verse . Next Anger rushed ; his eyes , on fire , In lightnings owned his secret stings . — COLLINS . Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind . - BYRON . Death , his mask melting like a nightmare dream ...
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... usage are , pair , brace , dozen , after numerals ( if not after numerals , or if preceded by the prepositions in , by , etc. , they add -s ) : also trout , salmon ; head , sail ; cannon ; heathen , folk , people . -Es added in certain ...
... usage are , pair , brace , dozen , after numerals ( if not after numerals , or if preceded by the prepositions in , by , etc. , they add -s ) : also trout , salmon ; head , sail ; cannon ; heathen , folk , people . -Es added in certain ...
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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 234 - The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
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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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