Companion to English Grammar ...1862 |
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... modifying the predicate in respect to time , place , manner , and in various other ways . All such extensions as these may be placed by themselves in a separate column . EXAMPLES . Subjects . Birds Predicates . Completions . Extensions ...
... modifying the predicate in respect to time , place , manner , and in various other ways . All such extensions as these may be placed by themselves in a separate column . EXAMPLES . Subjects . Birds Predicates . Completions . Extensions ...
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... modifying the principal clause in the same manner as that in Example 2. The principal clause is , ' He is no farther from knavery . ' The adjective clause tells what He ' we are talking about , and the adverbial tells how far ' he is ...
... modifying the principal clause in the same manner as that in Example 2. The principal clause is , ' He is no farther from knavery . ' The adjective clause tells what He ' we are talking about , and the adverbial tells how far ' he is ...
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... , quali- fying man . Adv . sentence , modifying 1st clause in manner . Adj . sentence to 3rd clause , quali- fying ' he . ' EXERCISES FOR PUPILS . Distinguish between principal , substantive , 28 COMPANION TO ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
... , quali- fying man . Adv . sentence , modifying 1st clause in manner . Adj . sentence to 3rd clause , quali- fying ' he . ' EXERCISES FOR PUPILS . Distinguish between principal , substantive , 28 COMPANION TO ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
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... modifying twice . In sentence ( c ) but and if are nouns , objects of the preposition ' without . ' Observe that when- ever but is a preposition it has the meaning of save or except , and is followed by an objective case . When but is ...
... modifying twice . In sentence ( c ) but and if are nouns , objects of the preposition ' without . ' Observe that when- ever but is a preposition it has the meaning of save or except , and is followed by an objective case . When but is ...
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... modifying Syntax applied . A noun or pronoun in the nominative case relates to a finite verb expressed or understood . A verb must agree with its nominative case in num- ber and person . The rela- tive ' which ' is often omitted in the ...
... modifying Syntax applied . A noun or pronoun in the nominative case relates to a finite verb expressed or understood . A verb must agree with its nominative case in num- ber and person . The rela- tive ' which ' is often omitted in the ...
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1st clause 2nd clause 4th clause adjective relating adjective sentence adverb adverbial sentence agreeing Analysis Anastrophe anteced antecedent Apocope apposition co-ord comma common noun complete compound sentence conjunction contains contracted demonstrative adjective Enallage English Grammars EXAMPLE EXERCISES FOR PUPILS expressing relation figures finite verb following sentences give governed happiness hath heaven honour Hyperbaton imperative mood indicative mood infin infinitive mood intrans jective king letter live meaning mind modifying neuter gender never nominative noun or pronoun objective paraphrase Parse the words PARSING passage Passive past participle past tense Periphrasis phrase poetry predicate prep preposition principal clauses Principal sentence prose qualifying relative pronoun Remark RULE sense sentence to 1st sentence to 2nd sentence to 4th simple sentence sing singular number style substantive sentence TATE'S Tell tence thee things third person thou tive trans transitive verb verbal combination virtue writing
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Página 150 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Página 109 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Página 110 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost — the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
Página 113 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Página 71 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 70 - The Mother of Mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory...
Página 99 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors' by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 71 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 64 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 21 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.