The Essentials of the English SentenceD.C. Health & Company, 1900 - 310 páginas |
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... root vowel with or without other change : - v , man men foot feet goose geese mouse mice woman women tooth teeth louse lice Some adopted foreign nouns retain their foreign plural : - axis axes criterion criteria madame mesdames Foreign ...
... root vowel with or without other change : - v , man men foot feet goose geese mouse mice woman women tooth teeth louse lice Some adopted foreign nouns retain their foreign plural : - axis axes criterion criteria madame mesdames Foreign ...
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... root infi tive , which is the simplest form of the verb , the simp past tense , and the past participle . These are call principal parts , because from them is formed , by mea of personal endings , tense signs , and auxiliaries , th ...
... root infi tive , which is the simplest form of the verb , the simp past tense , and the past participle . These are call principal parts , because from them is formed , by mea of personal endings , tense signs , and auxiliaries , th ...
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... root infinitive by conjugation Regular adding d or ed : - live lived lived work worked worked rap rapped rapped An irregular verb of the new conjugation forms its Irregular derived principal parts by some change in addition to , or ...
... root infinitive by conjugation Regular adding d or ed : - live lived lived work worked worked rap rapped rapped An irregular verb of the new conjugation forms its Irregular derived principal parts by some change in addition to , or ...
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... root infinitive with or without a personal endi or a past tense with or without personal ending , or infinitive or participle following an auxiliary . The a iliary verbs are : Personal Impersonal Properties Voice Active be can do have ...
... root infinitive with or without a personal endi or a past tense with or without personal ending , or infinitive or participle following an auxiliary . The a iliary verbs are : Personal Impersonal Properties Voice Active be can do have ...
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... root infinitive . Its subject is usually omitted : Go to the ant , thou sluggard ; consider her ways and be wise . Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel . Let us have peace . Note . - Some of the difficulties in the way of ...
... root infinitive . Its subject is usually omitted : Go to the ant , thou sluggard ; consider her ways and be wise . Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel . Let us have peace . Note . - Some of the difficulties in the way of ...
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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.