A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of SchoolsIvison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Company, 1868 - 374 pages |
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... connection with Punctuation , to which it is of the greatest value . A Key to the Exercises will be furnished , if it should be found necessary . It was my design to add an article on Composition ; but , as this is not necessarily a ...
... connection with Punctuation , to which it is of the greatest value . A Key to the Exercises will be furnished , if it should be found necessary . It was my design to add an article on Composition ; but , as this is not necessarily a ...
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... connect its parts ; and inter- jections , to give vent to any feeling or emotion springing up suddenly within me . Ex - Nouns : " In spring , the sun shines pleasantly upon the earth , leaves and flowers come forth , and birds sing in ...
... connect its parts ; and inter- jections , to give vent to any feeling or emotion springing up suddenly within me . Ex - Nouns : " In spring , the sun shines pleasantly upon the earth , leaves and flowers come forth , and birds sing in ...
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... connection with the other words , and hence they are said to be dependent . Which are the relative pronouns ? Who , whoever , whosoever ; whose , whosever , whosesoever ; whom , whomever , whomsoever ; which , whichever , whichso- ever ...
... connection with the other words , and hence they are said to be dependent . Which are the relative pronouns ? Who , whoever , whosoever ; whose , whosever , whosesoever ; whom , whomever , whomsoever ; which , whichever , whichso- ever ...
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... connected with present time . " He Ex .- " This magnificent city has been built within one hundred years . " has practised law two years . " " I have just sold my horse . " " The mail may have arrived . " " This house appears to have ...
... connected with present time . " He Ex .- " This magnificent city has been built within one hundred years . " has practised law two years . " " I have just sold my horse . " " The mail may have arrived . " " This house appears to have ...
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... connect as well as modify . They are usually ad- verbs of time , place , or manner ; as , When , where , while , till , as , etc. INTERROGATIVE ADVERB3 . These are those adverbs of the foregoing classes , which are used to ask questions ...
... connect as well as modify . They are usually ad- verbs of time , place , or manner ; as , When , where , while , till , as , etc. INTERROGATIVE ADVERB3 . These are those adverbs of the foregoing classes , which are used to ask questions ...
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Expressions et termes fréquents
accent according to Rule adjective adjunct adverb anapest antecedent apples apposition auxiliary auxiliary verbs beautiful belongs better called capital comma common compound conjunctions connected consonant denotes dependent clause discourse entire predicate entire subject Exercises express finite verb flowers gender give grammar grammarians hence horse imperative mood implies indicative mood interjection interrogative John language mány meaning metonymy modified mood moved neuter never nominative noun or pronoun object omitted parsed passive person and number phrase pleonasm plural poet poetry possessive potential mood preceding predicate-verb preposition present preterit principal reference regard relates relative clause relative pronoun river sense singular number sometimes sound speaker speech subject-nominative subjunctive subjunctive mood substantive syllables taken tence tense term thee thing third person thou thought tive transitive verb tree trochee usually verb vowel words write
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Page 331 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 301 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history: the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill — and there they will remain forever.
Page 302 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Page 308 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of, forgotten lore, — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. '"Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door: Only this and nothing more.
Page 338 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 321 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 295 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 326 - In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair!
Page 266 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 320 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.