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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... pronoun that he falls into such errors as " How many sounds have each of the vowels ? " " Five years ' interest are due . " " She is older than me . " He would probably not say " each have , " " interest are , ' 99 66 me am . " One ...
... pronoun that he falls into such errors as " How many sounds have each of the vowels ? " " Five years ' interest are due . " " She is older than me . " He would probably not say " each have , " " interest are , ' 99 66 me am . " One ...
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... PRONOUNS Without the little words which we shall italicize , it would be difficult for one stranger to ask another , " Can you tell me who is the postmaster at B ? " The one would not know what name to use instead of you , the other ...
... PRONOUNS Without the little words which we shall italicize , it would be difficult for one stranger to ask another , " Can you tell me who is the postmaster at B ? " The one would not know what name to use instead of you , the other ...
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... pronouns , whether subjects or not , in the sentences given in Lesson 18 . In writing them observe the following rules : CAPITAL LETTER RULE . Proper , or individ- ual , names and words derived from them begin with capital letters ...
... pronouns , whether subjects or not , in the sentences given in Lesson 18 . In writing them observe the following rules : CAPITAL LETTER RULE . Proper , or individ- ual , names and words derived from them begin with capital letters ...
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... pronouns in column 1 so as to make good sentences : Remark . Notice that is , was , and has are used with nouns naming one thing , and with the pronouns he , she , and it ; and that are , were , and have are used with nouns naming ...
... pronouns in column 1 so as to make good sentences : Remark . Notice that is , was , and has are used with nouns naming one thing , and with the pronouns he , she , and it ; and that are , were , and have are used with nouns naming ...
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... pronouns we , you , and they . I may be used with am , was , and have . 1 2 Words am Cotton is Sugar are Air was Teas Speeches were I , we , you has been He , she , it , they have been 3 confused exported refined coined delivered ...
... pronouns we , you , and they . I may be used with am , was , and have . 1 2 Words am Cotton is Sugar are Air was Teas Speeches were I , we , you has been He , she , it , they have been 3 confused exported refined coined delivered ...
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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...