Hoenshel's Advanced GrammarCrane & Company, 1899 - 314 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
active voice adjective phrase adjective pronoun adverb clause adverb modifying adverb of degree adverb phrase Analyze these sentences antecedent apposition better called comparative degree complex sentence compound relative compound sentence conjunctive adverb connected construction Correct where necessary dependent clause Diagram the preceding Diagram these sentences expressed following sentences gender give grammar imperative mode infinitive intransitive verb LESSON live loved masculine meaning nominative nominative absolute Notice these diagrams noun clause noun or pronoun objective subject parse the words parsed passive voice past participle past tense personal pronoun pleonasm possessive potential mode preceding sentences predicate preposition PRESENT TENSE PRESENT-PERFECT TENSE proper noun relative clause relative pronoun second sentence sentence containing sentences in paragraph singular sometimes speaker subjunctive subordinate clause superlative tences thing third person tive transitive understood walk words in black Write a sentence Write three sentences Write two sentences written
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Página 56 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang the
Página 199 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 199 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Página 144 - should and would' are similarly used to form future in the past tenses. b) 'will' in the First Person, and 'shall
Página 277 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand, and my heart, to this vote.
Página 144 - To express simple futurity, use shall in the first person and will in the second and third persons. To express volitional futurity, use will in the first person, and shall in the second and third persons.
Página 172 - The farmer went to his neighbor, and told him that his cattle were in his field.
Página 142 - INDICATIVE MODE. PRESENT TENSE. Singular. Plural. 1. I am, 1. We are, 2. Thou art, 2. You are, 3. He is; 3. They are.
Página 170 - One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Página 273 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.