A Shorter English Grammar with Copious and Carefully Graduated ExercisesW.J. Gage, 1879 - 253 páginas |
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... John and Henry III . , stopped the further * Compare , for example , feeling and sentiment , work and labour , bloom and flower . The number of pairs of exactly synonymous words is small . influx of the Norman element . At the same time ...
... John and Henry III . , stopped the further * Compare , for example , feeling and sentiment , work and labour , bloom and flower . The number of pairs of exactly synonymous words is small . influx of the Norman element . At the same time ...
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... John came yesterday ' ; ' I am very tired . ' A Preposition ( Latin prae , ' before , ' positus , ' placed ' ) is a word which shows how things , or their actions and attributes , are related to other things , as ' A cloud in the sky ...
... John came yesterday ' ; ' I am very tired . ' A Preposition ( Latin prae , ' before , ' positus , ' placed ' ) is a word which shows how things , or their actions and attributes , are related to other things , as ' A cloud in the sky ...
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... John , London , Bucephalus , Excalibur . The word proper ( Latin proprius ) means own . A proper name is a person's or thing's own name . Proper nouns are written with a capital letter at the beginning . 36. Proper nouns , as such , are ...
... John , London , Bucephalus , Excalibur . The word proper ( Latin proprius ) means own . A proper name is a person's or thing's own name . Proper nouns are written with a capital letter at the beginning . 36. Proper nouns , as such , are ...
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... John's book , ' the possessive case John's shows that something ( namely a book ) belongs to John . ' A day's journey ' is a journey that belongs to a day , by taking place in it , or occupying the whole of it . In old English this case ...
... John's book , ' the possessive case John's shows that something ( namely a book ) belongs to John . ' A day's journey ' is a journey that belongs to a day , by taking place in it , or occupying the whole of it . In old English this case ...
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... John Smith's father , ' ' My father- in - law's house , ' ' Henry the Eighth's reign , ' & c . The same usage is followed when something belongs in common to two or more persons who are closely connected , as ' John and Mary's uncle ...
... John Smith's father , ' ' My father- in - law's house , ' ' Henry the Eighth's reign , ' & c . The same usage is followed when something belongs in common to two or more persons who are closely connected , as ' John and Mary's uncle ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abstract Nouns action adjective clause Adjectives of Quality Adjectives of Relation adjunct of predicate Adverbial adjunct adverbial clause Analysis Anglo-Saxon attributive adjunct auxiliary verbs brother called Chaucer co-ordinate comma common Compare compound conjunction consonant dative denotes dependent clause derived Edition Exercise expressed father Fcap feminine following sentences gender genitive gerund grammatical Greek horse Imperative Mood Imperfect incomplete predication Indicative Mood infinitive mood inflexion juncts of subject Latin letter masculine means modifies mute neuter nominative noun or pronoun object Parse passive Past Indefinite Tense Past Perfect perfect participle Perfect Tense Personal Pronoun phrase Plur Plural possessive preceded prefix preposition Pres Present Indefinite Tense Present Tense Pret qualifies relative pronoun sense Shakspere simple Sing Singular smiting smitten speaking stands Subjective complement Subjunctive Mood substantive clause suffix superlative syllable Teutonic thee thing Third Person Thou transitive verb Verb of incomplete vowel sound weak conjugation word writing
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Página 230 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Página 222 - 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.
Página 204 - ... the house that Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
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Página 223 - 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.
Página 225 - THIS modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, * Here lies an honest man :' A poet, bless'd beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's...
Página 226 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness ; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: 6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. 7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
Página 8 - M, m : N, n : O, o : P, p : Q, q: R, r: S, s : T, t: U, u : V, v: W, w: X, x : Y, y : Z, z.
Página 4 - Verbs, Irregular and Defective; their leading formations, tenses, and inflexions, with Paradigms for conjugation, Rules for formation of tenses, &c.
Página 204 - 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.