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 ExpressionCharles E. Merrill Company, 1913 - 442 páginas |
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... adjectives are joined to one noun , each adjective does not always modify the unlimited noun . That old wooden house was burned . Here wooden modifies house , old modifies house limited by wooden , and that modifies house limited by old ...
... adjectives are joined to one noun , each adjective does not always modify the unlimited noun . That old wooden house was burned . Here wooden modifies house , old modifies house limited by wooden , and that modifies house limited by old ...
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... ADJECTIVES When two or more adjectives are used with a noun , care must be taken in their arrangement . If they differ in rank , place near- est the noun the one most closely modifying it . If of the same rank , place them where they ...
... ADJECTIVES When two or more adjectives are used with a noun , care must be taken in their arrangement . If they differ in rank , place near- est the noun the one most closely modifying it . If of the same rank , place them where they ...
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... adjectives one from each of these columns : Let the adjectives be appropriate . For punctuation , see Lesson 21 . The dark That bright sunny wearisome This dingy commercial Those short blue These soft adventurous Five brave fleecy Some ...
... adjectives one from each of these columns : Let the adjectives be appropriate . For punctuation , see Lesson 21 . The dark That bright sunny wearisome This dingy commercial Those short blue These soft adventurous Five brave fleecy Some ...
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... adjectives ; as , Very ripe apples are healthful . Adverbs modify verbs just as adjectives modify nouns by limiting ... adjective , or an adverb . * Analysis and Parsing 1. The leaves fall very quietly . * See Lesson 92 and foot - note ...
... adjectives ; as , Very ripe apples are healthful . Adverbs modify verbs just as adjectives modify nouns by limiting ... adjective , or an adverb . * Analysis and Parsing 1. The leaves fall very quietly . * See Lesson 92 and foot - note ...
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... adjective is called an Adjective Phrase . A phrase that does the work of an adverb is called an Adverb Phrase . As adverbs modify adjectives and adverbs , they may modify their equivalent phrases ; as , The train stops only at the ...
... adjective is called an Adjective Phrase . A phrase that does the work of an adverb is called an Adverb Phrase . As adverbs modify adjectives and adverbs , they may modify their equivalent phrases ; as , The train stops only at the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
9 of preface adjective clause adverb clause apples attribute complement called capital letter comma complete complex sentences COMPOSITION conjugated conjunctive adverb connected construction correct these errors DEFINITION denotes diagram Direction doctor doctor English Examples Explanation explanatory following nouns Form the plural Future Perfect Tense gender Give and illustrate grammarians group of words independent clause infinitive phrase interrogative introduced Introductory Hints irregular verbs language learned Lesson masculine meaning MODE noun clause noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns object complement omitted Oral Analysis paragraph Parsing passive voice Past Perfect past tense PERFECT TENSE person preceding predicate Pres Present Perfect PRESENT PERFECT TENSE principal word pupils question quotation relation relative pronouns Remark RULE sound speak speech stand Study the Caution style subjunctive taught TEACHER tell tences things thou thought tion tive transitive verb transposed vowel write
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Página 366 - 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.
Página 134 - 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.
Página 96 - 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...
Página 370 - 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...
Página 392 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 402 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand.
Página 179 - 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.
Página 395 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Página 188 - Second street, and asked for biscuit, intending such as we had in Boston ; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such.
Página 200 - Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe. Not to speak of that Eye which...