How to Parse: An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Scholarship to English GrammarRoberts brothers, 1885 - 343 páginas |
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Página xxiv
... speaking : ( 2 ) spoken to ; ( 3 ) spoken of ( 79 ) . Personification . 66 66 61 Endow- ing what is impersonal with a Personal Character 2 Phrase [ Gr . phrasis , a " say- ing " ] . A group of words not expressing a statement , question ...
... speaking : ( 2 ) spoken to ; ( 3 ) spoken of ( 79 ) . Personification . 66 66 61 Endow- ing what is impersonal with a Personal Character 2 Phrase [ Gr . phrasis , a " say- ing " ] . A group of words not expressing a statement , question ...
Página xxv
... speaking , redundant ; they serve some purpose , although the pur- pose may not be easy to detect . Reflexive ( Verb ) [ L reflect- , " bend back " ] . A Verb in which the action of the Subject is as it were bent back on the Subject ...
... speaking , redundant ; they serve some purpose , although the pur- pose may not be easy to detect . Reflexive ( Verb ) [ L reflect- , " bend back " ] . A Verb in which the action of the Subject is as it were bent back on the Subject ...
Página xxvi
... speaking like the men of Soloi " 4 ] . Inaccuracy of expression . Spirants [ L. spira- , " breathe " ] . Letters in the pronunciation of whose sounds the breath is not wholly stopped , as it is in the pronunciation of 66 66 mutes ...
... speaking like the men of Soloi " 4 ] . Inaccuracy of expression . Spirants [ L. spira- , " breathe " ] . Letters in the pronunciation of whose sounds the breath is not wholly stopped , as it is in the pronunciation of 66 66 mutes ...
Página 8
... commands- ceases , strictly speaking , to be a Sentence , and becomes a Clause . See the Definitions , p . xxviii . The word Phrase includes Clause . 12 Charge after charge was made by the Persians , 8 [ Par . II . FORMS OF THE SUBJECT .
... commands- ceases , strictly speaking , to be a Sentence , and becomes a Clause . See the Definitions , p . xxviii . The word Phrase includes Clause . 12 Charge after charge was made by the Persians , 8 [ Par . II . FORMS OF THE SUBJECT .
Página 29
... speak of " an erect falling . " But the Latins , translating TTOσis into casus , lost the Greek sense , and we have lost it also ; so that now case means little more than " use in connection with other words . " 34 35 36 Inflections of ...
... speak of " an erect falling . " But the Latins , translating TTOσis into casus , lost the Greek sense , and we have lost it also ; so that now case means little more than " use in connection with other words . " 34 35 36 Inflections of ...
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3rd Sing action Active Participle Adjectival Adjective Phrases Adverb Adverbial Phrase answer Antecedent Apposition asked Auxiliary Verbs brevity called Clause Comma Compare Compound Verb Conditional Mood confusion Conjunction Consequent denote ditional Early English EXERCISE explained express French Future Gerundive Grammar Greeks Hence idiom Imperative Mood implied Indicative Indirect Object Infinitive Inflections inserted Interrogative Intransitive introduced irregularity italicized Verbs J. R. SEELEY ject John king language Latin Layamon lion meaning Modern English Noun or Pronoun Number omitted once Parse Passive Participle Past Tense Period Person Plural Poetry Pope preceded Preposition Present Principal Sentence Principal Verb pupil purpose question rascal regarded Regular Construction Relative Pronoun retained seems Shakspeare Singular sometimes sound speak Sub-ordinate Sentence Subject or Object Subjunctive Subjunctive Mood syllable Tell tence termination thing Thomas thou tion tive Transitive Verb Verbal Noun Voice vowel walk words Write Xerxes
Pasajes populares
Página 290 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn; Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Página 64 - And certainly our language now used varieth far from that which was used and spoken when I was born...
Página 240 - His knowledge measured to his state and place; His time a moment, and a point his space. If to be perfect in a certain sphere, What matter, soon or late, or here or there? The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
Página 193 - Love, strong as death, the poet led To the pale nations of the dead, What sounds were heard, What scenes appear'd, O'er all the dreary coasts ! Dreadful gleams, Dismal screams, Fires that glow, Shrieks of woe, Sullen moans, Hollow groans, And cries of tortured ghosts ! But, hark!
Página 286 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
Página 283 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Página 64 - ... could speak no French ; and the merchant was angry, for he also could speak no French, but would have had eggs, and she understood him not.
Página 307 - We are descended of ancient families, and kept up our dignity and honour many years, till the jack-sprat THAT supplanted us.
Página 290 - Eve separate he spies, Veil'd in a cloud of fragrance, where she stood...