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 6
... verb or decline the pronoun that he falls into such errors as " How many sounds have each of the vowels ? " " Five years ' interest are due . " " She is older than me . " He would probably not say " each have , " " interest are , ' 99 ...
... verb or decline the pronoun that he falls into such errors as " How many sounds have each of the vowels ? " " Five years ' interest are due . " " She is older than me . " He would probably not say " each have , " " interest are , ' 99 ...
Side 34
... VERBS Introductory Hints . We told you in Lesson 8 , how by noticing the essential likenesses in things and grouping the things thus alike , we could throw the countless objects around us into ... verb 34 THE SENTENCE AND THE PARTS OF SPEECH.
... VERBS Introductory Hints . We told you in Lesson 8 , how by noticing the essential likenesses in things and grouping the things thus alike , we could throw the countless objects around us into ... verb 34 THE SENTENCE AND THE PARTS OF SPEECH.
Side 35
... verb , the participle and the 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 ...
... verb , the participle and the 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 ...
Side 36
... verbs are the only words that assert , every predicate must be a verb , or must contain a verb . Naming the class to which a word belongs is the first step in parsing . Direction . Parse five of the sentences you have written . Model ...
... verbs are the only words that assert , every predicate must be a verb , or must contain a verb . Naming the class to which a word belongs is the first step in parsing . Direction . Parse five of the sentences you have written . Model ...
Side 42
... verb ) . Adverbs may modify adjectives ; as , Very ripe apples are healthful . Adverbs modify verbs just as adjectives modify nouns by limiting them . The horse has a proud step = The horse steps proudly . - The Predicate with its ...
... verb ) . Adverbs may modify adjectives ; as , Very ripe apples are healthful . Adverbs modify verbs just as adjectives modify nouns by limiting them . The horse has a proud step = The horse steps proudly . - The Predicate with its ...
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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...