English Grammar PracticeBell & Sons, 1879 - 84 páginas |
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... gerund with its adjuncts ; 3. for the act or fact stated in a sentence ; 4. for the gerund or infinitive that denotes such an act or fact in an abstract form . ' It ' often stands for an infinitive mood , a gerund , or a sentence that ...
... gerund with its adjuncts ; 3. for the act or fact stated in a sentence ; 4. for the gerund or infinitive that denotes such an act or fact in an abstract form . ' It ' often stands for an infinitive mood , a gerund , or a sentence that ...
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... infinitive does the work of an adverb , and modifies the preceding adjective . Sometimes it expresses the cause of the state denoted by the adjective . XXIX . Gerunds and Participles . Preliminary Lesson . - EXERCISES . 25.
... infinitive does the work of an adverb , and modifies the preceding adjective . Sometimes it expresses the cause of the state denoted by the adjective . XXIX . Gerunds and Participles . Preliminary Lesson . - EXERCISES . 25.
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... gerund . It is impossible to construct the abstract noun in -ing with a past participle . Here a ' is a preposition ( = at or in ) . Thinking ' had better be taken in such construc- tions as the Abstract Noun in -ing . ? There is here a ...
... gerund . It is impossible to construct the abstract noun in -ing with a past participle . Here a ' is a preposition ( = at or in ) . Thinking ' had better be taken in such construc- tions as the Abstract Noun in -ing . ? There is here a ...
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... gerund or infinitive which expresses that act or fact in an abstract manner , as , " The king's two sons are stolen away and fled , which ( namely , the fact that the king's two sons are stolen away and fled ) puts upon them suspicion ...
... gerund or infinitive which expresses that act or fact in an abstract manner , as , " The king's two sons are stolen away and fled , which ( namely , the fact that the king's two sons are stolen away and fled ) puts upon them suspicion ...
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... be glad to + Add to these examples all those in Exercise 10 which contain an Indirect Object . † Gerunds may be modified by adverbs as well as any other forms of the verb . hear of your safe arrival . He escaped by leaping EXERCISES . 37.
... be glad to + Add to these examples all those in Exercise 10 which contain an Indirect Object . † Gerunds may be modified by adverbs as well as any other forms of the verb . hear of your safe arrival . He escaped by leaping EXERCISES . 37.
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Página 42 - I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
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Página 24 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.
Página 53 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Página 21 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
Página 46 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
Página 46 - With this he breaketh from the sweet embrace Of those fair arms which bound him to her breast, And homeward through the dark laund runs apace; Leaves Love upon her back, deeply distress'd. Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky, So glides he in the night from Venus...
Página 43 - Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abus'd; but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.
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