Longmans' English GrammarGeorge James Smith Longmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 333 páginas |
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... modifies a Verb . Thus : - The child smiles sweetly . The child smells sweet . In the first sentence sweetly is an Adverb , because it shows how the child smiles ; in the second sentence sweet does not tell the way in 1 Latin copulatum ...
... modifies a Verb . Thus : - The child smiles sweetly . The child smells sweet . In the first sentence sweetly is an Adverb , because it shows how the child smiles ; in the second sentence sweet does not tell the way in 1 Latin copulatum ...
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... modifies the Adverb enough - enough for what ? ) . I am too tired to talk ( to talk modifies the Adverb too - too tired for what ? ) . ( d ) Modifying a statement : He is , to be sure , a skillful oarsman . ( To be sure modifies the ...
... modifies the Adverb enough - enough for what ? ) . I am too tired to talk ( to talk modifies the Adverb too - too tired for what ? ) . ( d ) Modifying a statement : He is , to be sure , a skillful oarsman . ( To be sure modifies the ...
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... modifies the Verb lives . Since it thus does the work of an Adverb as well as of a Conjunction , it is properly termed a Conjunctive Adverb . If the other words in the list be examined in the same way , it will be seen that they , too ...
... modifies the Verb lives . Since it thus does the work of an Adverb as well as of a Conjunction , it is properly termed a Conjunctive Adverb . If the other words in the list be examined in the same way , it will be seen that they , too ...
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... modifies . If it is a Conjunctive Adverb , tell also what it connects . PREPOSITIONS . Learn again : 428. A Preposition is a word placed before a Noun ( or a Pro- noun ) to show the relation between the person or thing named and what is ...
... modifies . If it is a Conjunctive Adverb , tell also what it connects . PREPOSITIONS . Learn again : 428. A Preposition is a word placed before a Noun ( or a Pro- noun ) to show the relation between the person or thing named and what is ...
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... modifies ; thus : He stood a long time at the door of the house . At Preposition ; it shows the relation between its object door and the Verb stood . Of Preposition ; it shows the relation between its object house and the Noun door ...
... modifies ; thus : He stood a long time at the door of the house . At Preposition ; it shows the relation between its object door and the Verb stood . Of Preposition ; it shows the relation between its object house and the Noun door ...
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Adjective Adjective Clause Adjuncts Adverbial Clause Apposition Attribute baby bird brother called child Complex Sentences Compound Conjunctive Adverb Coördinate Copulative Verb denoted diagram Edward elements English examples Exercise father Feminine flowers following sentences pick garden Gender Gerund girl Give grammar grammatical gender hear heard horse Imperative Mood Indicative Mood Infinitive Interrogative Intransitive Jack John join kind king lady Latin learned live look Mary Masculine means modifies mother names of actions Notes for Teachers Noun Clause Noun or Pronoun Number Object Parse Passive Voice Past Perfect Participle person or thing Predicate Prefixes printed in italics Progressive form Read again pars Relative Pronoun Simple sing Singular Number sister soldier speak Speech spoken statement Subject Subjunctive Mood Suffixes tell tences Tense thee thou to-day Transitive Verb tree walk William wind window write
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Página 27 - Little drops of water, Little grains of sand Make the mighty ocean, And the pleasant land.
Página 295 - And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.
Página 151 - SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Página 195 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Página 26 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii. Look ! in this place, ran Cassius...
Página 271 - They say it was a shocking sight after the field was won; for many thousand bodies here lay rotting in the sun; but things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory. Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, and our good Prince Eugene. "Why, 'twas a very wicked thing!" said little Wilhelmine. "Nay... nay... my little girl...
Página 158 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Página 56 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head. The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Página 150 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Página 104 - I saw a third — I heard his voice: It is the Hermit good! He singeth loud his godly hymns That he makes in the wood. He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away The Albatross's blood.