A Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Common Schools, Academies and SeminariesNewman & Ivison, 1854 - 250 páginas |
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... governed by it in the exe- cution of this work . Those passages which are taken without alteration , are generally marked with quotations or by subscribing the name of the author of the work from which they are taken . In commending ...
... governed by it in the exe- cution of this work . Those passages which are taken without alteration , are generally marked with quotations or by subscribing the name of the author of the work from which they are taken . In commending ...
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... governed strictly by its form . PARTS OF SPEECH . The Article . An article is a word placed before nouns , to limit or de- fine their meaning . The Noun . A noun is the name of any object of thought , material or immaterial . FIRST ...
... governed strictly by its form . PARTS OF SPEECH . The Article . An article is a word placed before nouns , to limit or de- fine their meaning . The Noun . A noun is the name of any object of thought , material or immaterial . FIRST ...
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... governs it . SECOND COURSE . When is that a relative ? Mention the five examples in which that is preferable to who ? When should as be construed as a relative pro- noun ? In these examples how do some grammarians supply an elip- sis ...
... governs it . SECOND COURSE . When is that a relative ? Mention the five examples in which that is preferable to who ? When should as be construed as a relative pro- noun ? In these examples how do some grammarians supply an elip- sis ...
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... governed . Mine , thine , hers , ours , yours and theirs , are substitutes for two words , or compound pronouns ; as , These return so much better out of your hands , than they went from mine ; ” i . e . my hands . Here mine is used for ...
... governed . Mine , thine , hers , ours , yours and theirs , are substitutes for two words , or compound pronouns ; as , These return so much better out of your hands , than they went from mine ; ” i . e . my hands . Here mine is used for ...
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... governed by the following noun denoting the thing possessed . EXAMPLES FOR PARSING . We ' are dependent on each other's assistance . Who ' is there that can subsist by himself ? 5 Of whom were the arti- cles bought ? I ' walk . Thou ...
... governed by the following noun denoting the thing possessed . EXAMPLES FOR PARSING . We ' are dependent on each other's assistance . Who ' is there that can subsist by himself ? 5 Of whom were the arti- cles bought ? I ' walk . Thou ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adjective adverbs affirmed antecedent apposition auxiliaries called clause collective noun comma Conjugate conjunction consonant construction declension defective verbs definite article degrees of comparison derived diphthong distinguished expressed False Orthography False Punctuation False Syntax formed by annexing gender governed grammatical subject imperative mode imperfect tense indefinite pronouns indicative mode infinitive mode Interjections interrogative intransitive letters logical subject loved meaning Metonomy mind modified neuter verb nominative noun denoting noun or pronoun object participial noun passive verb past action Perf perfect participle person or thing person singular personal pronouns pluperfect tense plural number Poss possessive preceding prefixed Pres present participle present tense principles proposition refer relative pronoun REMARK RULE Saxon SECOND COURSE Second Future Tense second person singular number sometimes sounded like long speech subject-nominative subjunctive mode tense denotes term termination thee third person thou tion tive transitive verb Triphthongs usually virtue vowel words
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Página 217 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Página 249 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Página 223 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Página 219 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Página 217 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Página 219 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Página 77 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Página 217 - Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow/ Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence/ And...
Página 215 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Página 218 - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence. What then ? what rests ? Try what repentance can : What can it not ? Yet what can it, when one can not repent ? O wretched state ! O bosom, black as death ! O limed soul; that struggling to be free, Art more engag'd ! Help, angels, make assay ! Bow, stubborn knees ! and, heart, with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe; All may be well ! [Retires, and kneels.