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action ACTIVE VOICE ADJECTIVAL PRONOUNS adjunct adverbs agreeing Antecedent apostrophe Apposition auxiliary verbs belongs Cæsar CHAPTER common verb compound tenses CONJUGATION Conjunctions consonant Definite Article dependent sentence dig dug feminine finite verb Future-Perfect GENDER governed Grammar hear the nightingale Hence horse IMPERATIVE MOOD INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD intransitive ject John John's knows his lesson loved P.1 loved PASSIVE VOICE loved Perfect loved Plur manner mark masculine means neuter NOUNS Adjective nouns substantive object omitted past participle Perfect Tense person or thing person singular personal pronouns phrases Pluperfect Tense plural number poetry Poss possessive POTENTIAL MOOD preposition Pres present and past Present Participle Present Tense qualifies refer Relative Pronoun second person Sing singular number sometimes speak spoken stands stantive SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD superlative syllable SYNTAX third person Thou mayest Thou mightest Thou shalt tive transitive Verbs understood usage vowel walked William words
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Página 156 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Página 90 - So down he came ; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, " The wine is left behind !" Good lack ! quoth he — yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword When I do exercise..
Página 192 - That's well said ; And for that wine is dear, We will be furnished with our own, Which is both bright and clear. John Gilpin kissed his loving wife ; O'erjoyed was he to find That though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. The morning came, the chaise was brought, But yet was not allowed To drive up to the door, lest all Should say that she was proud.
Página 189 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow!
Página 181 - And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
Página 197 - It was necessary for the world, that arts should be invented and improved, books written and transmitted to posterity, nations conquered and civilized Now since the proper and genuine motives to these, and the like great actions, would only influence virtuous minds ; there would be but small improvements in the world, were there not some common principle of action working equally with all men.
Página 133 - LORD, our heavenly ,Father, Almighty > and everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day ; De(fend us in the same with thy mighty power ; and grant » that this day we fall into no ,sin, neither run into ,any kind of danger...
Página 149 - 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 29 - Words of one syllable or words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Página 85 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the LORD : and His wonders in the deep.