Modern Business English: A Course in English on the "Learn to Express by Expressing" PlanLyons & Carnahan, 1906 - 256 Seiten |
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A. C. McClurg abbreviations adjectives adverb advertisement asking attribute complement auxiliary brevity business letter called catalogue cents Change CHAPTER Chicago comma complete complex sentence complimentary close compound sentence Copy correctly courteous customers Dear Sir dollars enclose English envelope errors exclamation EXERCISE ONE HUNDRED express Fill the blanks firm folded give grammar group of words interrogative intransitive verbs language letter writing look Lyon & Healy means Messrs modify money order necessary Note object complement ORAL DRILL CHART paragraph Passive payment perfect participle PERFECT TENSE plural position possessive forms predicate preposition PRESENT PERFECT TENSE pronoun proper nouns punctuation receipt received references reply singular speech student subjunctive taken Second Person taken You ye tell TENSE Active thing Third Person thou truly verb verb-phrases verbal noun VERBS-Continued Write a letter Write five sentences written
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Seite 204 - He and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters, had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumes of head-breaking questions. Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all...
Seite 226 - In the evening we reached a village where I had determined to pass the night. As we drove into the great gateway of the inn, I saw on one side the light of a rousing kitchen fire beaming through a window. I entered, and admired, for the hundredth time, that picture of convenience, neatness, and broad honest enjoyment, the kitchen of an English inn.
Seite 226 - It was one of those delightfully irregular houses where you go up and down steps out of one room into another, and where you come upon more rooms when you think you have seen all there are, and where there is a bountiful provision of little halls and passages, and where you find still older cottage-rooms in unexpected places, with lattice windows and green growth pressing through them. Mine, which we entered first, was of this kind, with an...
Seite 205 - Sheds of all the world (whatever they are), and all the histories of all the peoples, and all the names of all the rivers and mountains, and all the productions, manners, and customs of all the countries, and all their boundaries and bearings on the two-and-thirty points of the compass. Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more...
Seite 234 - Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives as they sat spinning by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and...
Seite 52 - Thus, while the busy dame bustled about the house or plied her spinningwheel at one end of the piazza, honest Bait would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other, watching the achievements of a little wooden warrior, who, armed with a sword in each hand, was most valiantly fighting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn.
Seite 234 - Hollow, as they sometimes called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air which prevailed in the earlier...
Seite 235 - He appeared to be a horseman of large dimensions, and mounted on a black horse of powerful frame. He made no offer of molestation or sociability, but kept aloof on one side of the road, jogging along on the blind side of old Gunpowder, who had now got over his fright and waywardness. Ichabod, who had no relish for this strange...
Seite 57 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own...
Seite 71 - Stiria there was in old time a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility. It was surrounded on all sides by steep and rocky mountains, rising into peaks which were always covered with snow, and from which a number of torrents descended in constant cataracts. One of these fell westward over the face of a crag so high, that, when the sun had set to everything else, and all below was darkness, his beams still shone full upon this waterfall, so that it looked like a shower of gold. It was,...