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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... ATTRIBUTE COMPLEMENTS Introductory Hints . The subject presents one idea ; the predicate presents another , and asserts it of the first . Corn is growing presents the idea of the thing , corn , and the idea of the act , growing , and ...
... ATTRIBUTE COMPLEMENTS Introductory Hints . The subject presents one idea ; the predicate presents another , and asserts it of the first . Corn is growing presents the idea of the thing , corn , and the idea of the act , growing , and ...
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... Attribute Complement . † Connected attribute complements of the same verb form a Compound Attribute Complement . Most grammarians call the adjective and the noun , when so used , the Predicate Adjective and the Predicate Noun ...
... Attribute Complement . † Connected attribute complements of the same verb form a Compound Attribute Complement . Most grammarians call the adjective and the noun , when so used , the Predicate Adjective and the Predicate Noun ...
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... attribute of it . Oral Analysis . Vulgar is the attribute complement , completing the predicate and expressing a quality of slang ; is vulgar is the entire predicate . 2. The sea is fascinating and treacherous . 3. The mountains are ...
... attribute of it . Oral Analysis . Vulgar is the attribute complement , completing the predicate and expressing a quality of slang ; is vulgar is the entire predicate . 2. The sea is fascinating and treacherous . 3. The mountains are ...
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... ATTRIBUTE COMPLEMENTS Analysis CONTINUED 1. He went out as mate and came back captain . and as went came mate captain as is simply introductory . Explanation . Mate , like cap- tain , is an attribute complement . Some would say that the ...
... ATTRIBUTE COMPLEMENTS Analysis CONTINUED 1. He went out as mate and came back captain . and as went came mate captain as is simply introductory . Explanation . Mate , like cap- tain , is an attribute complement . Some would say that the ...
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... attribute and is not easily distinguished from it . Here , like an adjective , seems to complete am , and , like an adverb , to modify it . From their form and usual function , here , in this example , should be called an adverb , and ...
... attribute and is not easily distinguished from it . Here , like an adjective , seems to complete am , and , like an adverb , to modify it . From their form and usual function , here , in this example , should be called an adverb , and ...
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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...