The Essentials of the English SentenceD.C. Health & Company, 1900 - 310 páginas |
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... III . Predicate Nominative IV . Object , Direct and Indirect V. Objective or Factitive Predicate VI . Attributive and Appositive Modifiers · 108 114 119 • 122 133 · 140 • 151 156 CHAPTER VIII . Adverbs . IX . Adverbial Objective Nouns.
... III . Predicate Nominative IV . Object , Direct and Indirect V. Objective or Factitive Predicate VI . Attributive and Appositive Modifiers · 108 114 119 • 122 133 · 140 • 151 156 CHAPTER VIII . Adverbs . IX . Adverbial Objective Nouns.
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... factitive verb , the adjective is called Factitive predicate objective ; if the adjective modifies a noun or pronoun directly , not through a verb , and is closely con- nected with it in meaning , it is called attributive ; if ...
... factitive verb , the adjective is called Factitive predicate objective ; if the adjective modifies a noun or pronoun directly , not through a verb , and is closely con- nected with it in meaning , it is called attributive ; if ...
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... Factitive c Copulative ( 4 ) Basis of use ( 5 ) Basis of kind of subject a Old Conj . New Conj . a Principal { % Auxiliary for a Personal b Impersonal ( Unipersonal ) ( a Voice ( a ) Regular ( b ) Irregular ( c ) Redundant ( d ) ...
... Factitive c Copulative ( 4 ) Basis of use ( 5 ) Basis of kind of subject a Old Conj . New Conj . a Principal { % Auxiliary for a Personal b Impersonal ( Unipersonal ) ( a Voice ( a ) Regular ( b ) Irregular ( c ) Redundant ( d ) ...
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... Factitive conjugation Regular Irregular The boy has hurt himself . Most men love themselves . A factitive verb is a transitive verb connecting w its object a noun , pronoun , or adjective modifier : They paint the barn red . We shall ...
... Factitive conjugation Regular Irregular The boy has hurt himself . Most men love themselves . A factitive verb is a transitive verb connecting w its object a noun , pronoun , or adjective modifier : They paint the barn red . We shall ...
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... factitive , copulative . ( c ) Complement - object , predicate word . 4. Modifiers of the subject , and of its modifiers . 5. Modifiers of the verb , and of its modifiers . 6. Modifiers of the predicate word or object , and of its ...
... factitive , copulative . ( c ) Complement - object , predicate word . 4. Modifiers of the subject , and of its modifiers . 5. Modifiers of the verb , and of its modifiers . 6. Modifiers of the predicate word or object , and of its ...
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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.