Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition, in which the Science of the Language is Made Tributary to the Art of ExpressionCharles E. Merrill Company, 1913 - 442 sider |
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Side 35
... infinitive ( see Lessons 37 and 40 ) , that express action , being , or state of being , without asserting it . Direction . Write after each of the following nouns as many appropriate verbs as you can think of : Let some express being ...
... infinitive ( see Lessons 37 and 40 ) , that express action , being , or state of being , without asserting it . Direction . Write after each of the following nouns as many appropriate verbs as you can think of : Let some express being ...
Side 83
... infinitive in -ing , set down by some as a modification of the simple infinitive in -an or -en , is a perfectly unwarranted invention . " Others call these words modernized forms of the Anglo - Saxon Verbal Nouns in -ung , -ing . But ...
... infinitive in -ing , set down by some as a modification of the simple infinitive in -an or -en , is a perfectly unwarranted invention . " Others call these words modernized forms of the Anglo - Saxon Verbal Nouns in -ung , -ing . But ...
Side 84
... Infinitives ; some of them Verbal Nouns ; and some of them Gerunds . Though some of these forms in -ing may be traced back to the Saxon verbal noun or to the infinitive , and though the Saxon participle is adjectival , we have , for ...
... Infinitives ; some of them Verbal Nouns ; and some of them Gerunds . Though some of these forms in -ing may be traced back to the Saxon verbal noun or to the infinitive , and though the Saxon participle is adjectival , we have , for ...
Side 87
... stir . The adjective , the participle , and the infinitive do not here seem to differ essentially in office . See Lesson 31 and page 97 . 15. I felt my heart beating faster . 16. You VERBS WITH ADJECTIVAL USE , THOSE WITH NOUNAL 87.
... stir . The adjective , the participle , and the infinitive do not here seem to differ essentially in office . See Lesson 31 and page 97 . 15. I felt my heart beating faster . 16. You VERBS WITH ADJECTIVAL USE , THOSE WITH NOUNAL 87.
Side 92
... Infinitive ( Lat . infinitus , without limit ) . For definition , see Lesson 131. The infinitive , like the participle , may have what is called an assumed subject . The assumed subject denotes that to which the action or being ...
... Infinitive ( Lat . infinitus , without limit ) . For definition , see Lesson 131. The infinitive , like the participle , may have what is called an assumed subject . The assumed subject denotes that to which the action or being ...
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9 of preface adjective clause adverb clause apples attribute complement called capital letter comma complete complex sentences COMPOSITION conjugated conjunctive adverb connected construction correct these errors DEFINITION denotes diagram Direction doctor doctor English Examples Explanation explanatory following nouns Form the plural Future Perfect Tense gender Give and illustrate grammarians group of words independent clause infinitive phrase interrogative introduced Introductory Hints irregular verbs language learned Lesson masculine meaning MODE noun clause noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns object complement omitted Oral Analysis paragraph Parsing passive voice Past Perfect past tense PERFECT TENSE person preceding predicate Pres Present Perfect PRESENT PERFECT TENSE principal word pupils question quotation relation relative pronouns Remark RULE sound speak speech stand Study the Caution style subjunctive taught TEACHER tell tences things thou thought tion tive transitive verb transposed vowel write
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Side 366 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Side 134 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Side 96 - Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear...
Side 370 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Side 392 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Side 402 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand.
Side 179 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Side 395 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Side 188 - Second street, and asked for biscuit, intending such as we had in Boston ; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such.
Side 200 - Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe. Not to speak of that Eye which...