A Practical Grammar of the English LanguageJohn P. Morton & Company, 1846 - 254 páginas Series title on front cover. |
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... omitted .. Compound Relative . Interrogative SYNTAX Subject .. Predicate .... Sentences Rules of Syntax ...... . Rule I. , Apposition . ............. Verb X. , Object of Preposi- Participles .. 78 Conjugation 81 Irregular Verbs .. 97 ...
... omitted .. Compound Relative . Interrogative SYNTAX Subject .. Predicate .... Sentences Rules of Syntax ...... . Rule I. , Apposition . ............. Verb X. , Object of Preposi- Participles .. 78 Conjugation 81 Irregular Verbs .. 97 ...
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... omitted before terminations beginning with a vowel ; as , save , saving ; force , forcible ; blame , blamable . Exceptions . - Words ending in ce or ge retain e before able , to preserve the soft sound of c and g ; as , change ...
... omitted before terminations beginning with a vowel ; as , save , saving ; force , forcible ; blame , blamable . Exceptions . - Words ending in ce or ge retain e before able , to preserve the soft sound of c and g ; as , change ...
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... omitted , it is said that each stands for man ; as , “ Each has his faults . " 3. But it seems hardly correct to represent these adjectives as becoming pronouns when the noun is omitted . Other adjectives might be called pro- nouns on ...
... omitted , it is said that each stands for man ; as , “ Each has his faults . " 3. But it seems hardly correct to represent these adjectives as becoming pronouns when the noun is omitted . Other adjectives might be called pro- nouns on ...
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... omitted , but in its stead , that and those are employed ; as , " The course of life is short , that of glory eternal ; " " The duties of men differ from those of women . " In these examples that and those are not used in their usual ...
... omitted , but in its stead , that and those are employed ; as , " The course of life is short , that of glory eternal ; " " The duties of men differ from those of women . " In these examples that and those are not used in their usual ...
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... omitted . Thus : " That is your book , but this is mine , " " This is my book , but that is yours . " Mine and thine were formerly used before a vowel or silent h ; as , all mine iniquities . " They are still so used in the solemn style ...
... omitted . Thus : " That is your book , but this is mine , " " This is my book , but that is yours . " Mine and thine were formerly used before a vowel or silent h ; as , all mine iniquities . " They are still so used in the solemn style ...
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accented action active voice adjuncts anapestic antecedent apple apposition auxiliary perfect participle beautiful belongs better Cæsar called comma common noun compound connected consonant correct defective verb denote dependent clause English expressed feet feminine finite verb flowers following sentences FUTURE PERFECT TENSE gender George Grammar grammatical predicate grammatical subject happy heaven horse imperative mood imperfect infinitive mood interjections interrogative intransitive language limiting adjective live loved masculine meaning modified noun or pronoun number and person o'er object PARSING EXERCISES participial noun passive participle passive voice PAST PERFECT past tense pause plural possessive potential mood preceding predicate nominative preposition PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE principle proper refer relative clause relative pronoun Remark Rule xii simple singular number sound subjunctive subjunctive mood superlative sweet syllable Tell thee thing third person tive transitive verb trochee virtue vowel wish words write written
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Página 234 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power : In dreams, through camp and court he bore The trophies of a conqueror...
Página 236 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 250 - 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 196 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 245 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Página 194 - Oft, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me : The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me. Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Página 196 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining! They stood aloof, the scars remaining; Like cliffs which had been rent asunder! A dreary sea now flows between ; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween! The marks of that which once hath been.
Página 252 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 237 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Página 197 - Not there ; not there, my child. Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy, Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy ; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair, Sorrow and death may not enter there ; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom ; For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there ; it is there, my child.