A Practical Grammar of the English LanguageVan Antwerp, Bragg & Company, 1878 - 264 páginas |
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active voice adjective element adverb adverbial element affirmed Ans.-Because Ans.-It antecedent apples apposition called capital letters Caution commas complex compound Conj conjunctions conjunctive adverb connected Coördinate copula declarative DEFINITION denotes dependent clauses diphthong elementary sounds EXERCISES expression following sentences FUTURE PERFECT TENSE grammar Horses run imperative mode indicative mode INFINITIVE MODE interrogative John lesson limiting live loved MODELS FOR PARSING modified nominative absolute noun or pronoun object omitted ORDER OF PARSING passive voice PAST PERFECT TENSE PAST TENSE perfect participle personal pronoun phrase placed possessive POTENTIAL MODE predicate Prefix Prep PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE pron relative pronoun represent Rule XII simple sing singular number slates sometimes SUBJUNCTIVE MODE substitutes syllable thee thing third person Thou tion tive transitive verb trigraph vowel wise words Write seven sentences Write this sentence
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Página 252 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door.
Página 190 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 230 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Página 134 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Página 225 - And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Página 190 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Página 240 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand, and my heart, to this vote.
Página 18 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
Página 225 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Página 240 - For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.