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 Expression : a Course of Practical Lessons Carefully Graded, and Adapted to Everyday Use in the School-roomEffingham Maynard & Company, 1889 - 316 sider |
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... explanations of principles are fol- lowed by exhaustive practice in Composition - tothis everything is made tributary . " KELLOGG'S RHETORIC is evidently the fruit of scholarship and large experience . The author has collected his own ...
... explanations of principles are fol- lowed by exhaustive practice in Composition - tothis everything is made tributary . " KELLOGG'S RHETORIC is evidently the fruit of scholarship and large experience . The author has collected his own ...
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... Explanation . - Draw a heavy line and divide it thus : - Let the first part represent the subject of a sentence ; the second , the pred icate . If you write a word over the first part , you will understand that this word is the subject ...
... Explanation . - Draw a heavy line and divide it thus : - Let the first part represent the subject of a sentence ; the second , the pred icate . If you write a word over the first part , you will understand that this word is the subject ...
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... Explanation . - The two lines shaded alike and placed uppermost stand for the subject and the predicate , and show that these are of the same rank , and are the principal parts of the sentence . The iighter lines , placed under and ...
... Explanation . - The two lines shaded alike and placed uppermost stand for the subject and the predicate , and show that these are of the same rank , and are the principal parts of the sentence . The iighter lines , placed under and ...
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... best - generally in the order of length , the short- est first . Explanation . - Two honest young men were chosen . A tall , straight , dignified person entered . Young tells the kind of men 36 The Sentence and the Parts of Speech .
... best - generally in the order of length , the short- est first . Explanation . - Two honest young men were chosen . A tall , straight , dignified person entered . Young tells the kind of men 36 The Sentence and the Parts of Speech .
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... Explanation . - The two lines forming this group slant the same way to show that each stands for a modifying word . The line standing for the principal word of the group is joined to the predicate line . The end of the other is broken ...
... Explanation . - The two lines forming this group slant the same way to show that each stands for a modifying word . The line standing for the principal word of the group is joined to the predicate line . The end of the other is broken ...
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Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition, in ... Alonzo Reed,Brainerd Kellogg Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1889 |
Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition, in ... Alonzo Reed,Brainerd Kellogg Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1908 |
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Address adjective clause adjective modifier adverb clause adverb modifier Analysis and Parsing apples attribute complement Cæsar called capital letter comma complete complex sentences compound sentences conjunctive adverbs connected CONSTRUCTION correct these errors degree denotes diagram Direction Direction.-Correct these errors Direction.-Form Direction.-Study the Caution Direction.-Write Explanation Explanation.-The following nouns Future Perfect Tense gender Give and illustrate give your reasons grammar grammarians independent clauses infinitive phrase interrogative introduced language Lessons in English masculine meaning Mode natural order noun clause noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns object complement omitted paragraphs passive passive voice past tense PERFECT TENSE person plural predicate prepositional phrase Pres PRESENT PERFECT TENSE principal word pupils quotation rain relation Relative Pronouns Rule sentences illustrating singing singular sounds speak stand subjunctive superlative tell tence things thou thought transitive verb transposed voice vowel walk write
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Side 268 - 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 271 - 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 111 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
Side 82 - 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 148 - 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 155 - Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not.
Side 289 - But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill...
Side 268 - PLEASANT it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene, Where, the long drooping boughs between, Shadows dark and sunlight sheen Alternate come and go ; Or where the denser grove receives No sunlight from above, But the dark foliage interweaves In one unbroken roof of leaves, Underneath whose sloping eaves The shadows hardly move. Beneath some patriarchal tree I lay upon the ground ; His hoary arms uplifted he...
Side 278 - Publish it from the pulpit ; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it or fall with it. Send it to the public halls ; proclaim it there ; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon ; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support.
Side 110 - 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.