The Modern Course in English: English GrammarD.C. Heath & Company, 1914 - 322 páginas |
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The Modern Course in English: English Grammar Steadman Vincent Sanford,Peter Franklin Brown Visualização integral - 1914 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
abstract noun adjectival clause adjective adjunct accusative adverb adverbial clause ALLEN antecedent Appositive auxiliary verb BIBLE BLACKMORE BULWER BURKE called case-uses cognate object complete predicate COMPLETE SUBJECT complex sentence compound dative denotes direct object ELIOT EMERSON equivalent Exercise Explain expressed following sentences frequently Function-group genitive Gerund group of words HARDY HAWTHORNE indicative mood indirect infinitive clause inflection IRVING italicized words kind KIPLING LANIER linking verb LONGFELLOW MACAULAY modifies the meaning non-modal forms noun of action noun or pronoun parse past participle past tense person or thing personal pronouns phrase plural possessive adjective predicate nominative predicate verb preposition principal clause relative adverb relative pronoun ridden ride root form second sentence sentence containing SHAKESPEARE SHAW simple sentence speech STEVENSON subject substantive subjunctive subjunctive mood subordinate clause subordinate conjunction substantive clause tell TENNYSON thee thou tive transitive verb verb-phrase verbal noun WISTER word or group WORDSWORTH Write a sentence
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Página 207 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Página 207 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.
Página 2 - Suddenly, from the street outside, a very jovial gentleman began to beat with a staff on the shop-door, accompanying his blows with shouts and railleries in which the dealer was continually called upon by name. Markheim, smitten into ice, glanced at the dead man. But no! he lay quite still; he was fled away far beyond earshot of these blows and shoutings ; he was sunk beneath seas of silence; and his name, which would once have caught his notice above the howling of a storm, had become an empty sound.
Página 291 - ... breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was...
Página 28 - ... fretting about it, like illtempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings, and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart, — sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever hungry family of wives and children to enjoy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
Página 303 - 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 207 - I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below; nor could I regard him as a safe...
Página 307 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 70 - Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them; they cannot stop themselves; sleep cannot still them; madness only makes them go faster; death alone can break into the case, and, seizing the ever-swinging pendulum, which we call the heart...
Página 146 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.