An elementary English grammar, arranged in lessons, by Gardner & Sharpe |
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1st Person-I adjective of quality Adjective sentence adverb Adverbial sentence Analyze the following Bees gather called its antecedent common noun Compound sentence Conjugation Conjunction David definite article enlarged subjects Ex.-Make Ex.-Parse the following Ex.-Point Ex.-Write twelve sentences expresses an action extend the predicates fire fish following nouns following sentences formed by adding girl governed horse IMPERATIVE MOOD Indicative mood infinitive mood inflection Interjection intransitive John joined nominative noun or pronoun Noun sentence nouns and pronouns Parse participial phrase Passive voice Past Perfect Past tense Perfect participle Personal Pronouns play plural number possessive Potential mood preposition Present Perfect Principal sentence proper noun qualifies the meaning reaped 2nd relative pronoun RULE scholar ship singular nouns singular number six sentences slew Solomon built speak Subjunctive mood superlative swim thing third person Thou transitive verb trees Underline the enlargements VERB continued verb reap vowel word writing the names
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Side 49 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Side 34 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Side 35 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Side 50 - When the sunbeams struck into his room through the rustling blinds, and quivered on the opposite wall like golden water, he knew that evening was coming on, and that the sky was red and beautiful.
Side 48 - ... shining full upon the dial-plate, it brightened up as if nothing had been the matter. When the farmer came down to breakfast that morning, upon looking at the clock, he declared that his watch had gained half an hour in the night. MORAL. A celebrated modern writer says, "Take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Side 14 - Preposition •? A Preposition is a word placed before a noun or pronoun, to show the relation between it, and some other word or words in the sentence.
Side 13 - How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes.
Side 49 - The Reaper said, and smiled ; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Side 56 - The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide. At day-break on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor; And thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. They wept — and, turning homeward, cried, "In heaven we all shall meet;" — When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet.
Side 10 - Adjective pronoun is a word that partakes of the nature of an adjective, and of a pronoun. They are of four kinds, Possessive, Distributive, Demonstrative, and Indefinite. The Possessive pronouns denote possession. They are my, thy, his, her, its, our, your, their. The Distributive pronouns refer to persons, or things separately. They are each, every, either, neither. The Demonstrative pronouns point out nouns. They are this, that, these, those.