Advanced Lessons in English Grammar: For Use in Higher Grammar ClassesAmerican Book Company, 1891 - 334 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accented action ACTIVE VOICE adjective clause adjective modifiers adjective phrase adverbial clause adverbial modifier adverbial phrase amphibrach analysis ANAPESTIC antecedent apposition auxiliary birds Cæsar called co-ordinate comma common noun complex sentence compound sentence conjunctive adverbs connected consonant DEFINITION.-A denoting dependent clauses derived English equivalent examples EXERCISE express following sentences gender gerund give grammar indefinite indicative mode infinitive mode inflections intransitive jective language Latin modify the meaning noun clause noun or pronoun object parse participle passive voice past tense PERFECT TENSE person or thing personal pronoun Plural possessive preceded predicate complement Predicate verb prefix preposition PRESENT TENSE principal clause relative pronoun rime rule seen simple sentence Singular sometimes sound speak speech spoken subject and predicate subject noun Subject pronoun subjunctive mode subordinate clause subordinate conjunctions suffix syllable syllables rime tell tence third person Thou thought tion transitive verb vowel walk
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 132 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Seite 161 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Seite 120 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Seite 320 - A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit, still and bright With something of an angel light.
Seite 318 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Seite 249 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Seite 139 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Seite 320 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Seite 256 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
Seite 201 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.