The Essentials of the English SentenceD.C. Health & Company, 1900 - 310 páginas |
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... Rule of verb Nouns only of the third person , singular or plural , Agreement are used as subject of a sentence ; but ... RULE II . A verb agrees with its subject in person Rule and number . Some special cases needing notice are : - The ...
... Rule of verb Nouns only of the third person , singular or plural , Agreement are used as subject of a sentence ; but ... RULE II . A verb agrees with its subject in person Rule and number . Some special cases needing notice are : - The ...
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... , and nouns preceded by these words as well as by every and many a , take a singular verb ; any and none , and words preceded by any and Agreement of pronoun Rule What may be subject Compound subject SUBJECT AND PREDICATE 125.
... , and nouns preceded by these words as well as by every and many a , take a singular verb ; any and none , and words preceded by any and Agreement of pronoun Rule What may be subject Compound subject SUBJECT AND PREDICATE 125.
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... RULE III.A verb used with a subject pronoun agrees with the antecedent of the pronoun in person and number . The simple sentence may have for its subject : — - A noun , Hearts beat . Blood circulates . Two or more nouns , - Heaven and ...
... RULE III.A verb used with a subject pronoun agrees with the antecedent of the pronoun in person and number . The simple sentence may have for its subject : — - A noun , Hearts beat . Blood circulates . Two or more nouns , - Heaven and ...
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... . Hearts , like apples , are hard and sour . So Susan became a teacher . A man he was to all the country dear . He it was that hade me come Rule RULE IV.A predicate nominative noun or pronoun agrees in PREDICATE NOMINATIVE 137.
... . Hearts , like apples , are hard and sour . So Susan became a teacher . A man he was to all the country dear . He it was that hade me come Rule RULE IV.A predicate nominative noun or pronoun agrees in PREDICATE NOMINATIVE 137.
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Elias J. MacEwan. Rule RULE IV.A predicate nominative noun or pronoun agrees in case with the subject which it modifies : — ( But see possessive , and complement of copulative infinitive . ) 1. Despatch is the soul of business . Despatch ...
Elias J. MacEwan. Rule RULE IV.A predicate nominative noun or pronoun agrees in case with the subject which it modifies : — ( But see possessive , and complement of copulative infinitive . ) 1. Despatch is the soul of business . Despatch ...
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action adjective modifier Adverbial objective adverbs antecedent appositive appositive adjective assertion attributive auxiliary called compound condition conjunctions connected coördinate dead dependent clause direct object elements emphatic equivalent exclamatory expressions factitive factitive predicate father form of conjugation friends give given grammatical hath heaven imperative Indefinite independent indicative indirect infinitive phrases INFINITIVE PRESENT Inflection interrogative pronoun interrogative word intransitive introduced irregular live loved PAST loved thou meaning modi modified word nominative absolute noun or pronoun old conjugation Parsing participle passive voice PAST OR PERFECT PAST PERFECT past tense Perf person or thing personal pronouns pleonasm plural possessive potential mood predicate adjective predicate nominative prepositional phrase PRESENT PAST PRESENT PERFECT principal Punctuation relative pronoun root infinitive SIMPLE FORM simple sentence sing singular sleep sometimes subordinate substantive clauses Substitutes thee thou mayest thou mightst thou wouldst tion tive transitive verbs wet wetted wet
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Página 272 - For tis the mind that makes the body rich ; ^• And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, •+ So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Página 18 - He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew.
Página 41 - Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Página 284 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 43 - ... and mischief, and which no one but himself could manage. He was, in fact, noted for preferring vicious animals, given to all kinds of tricks which kept the rider in constant risk of his neck, for he held a tractable, wellbroken horse as unworthy of a lad of spirit. Fain would I pause...
Página 30 - If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats...
Página 18 - In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, — that is to say, some thirty years since, — a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. He was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters.
Página 18 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
Página 42 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.
Página 41 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.