Connectives of English Speech: The Correct Usage of Prepositions, Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns and Adverbs Explained and IllustratedFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1904 - 324 pages |
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... pass into the construction as conjunctions and undertake the con- nection of its members , as on the other hand they may appear in the sentence as independent adverbs - which they are originally in part . ” — MAETZNER , English Grammar ...
... pass into the construction as conjunctions and undertake the con- nection of its members , as on the other hand they may appear in the sentence as independent adverbs - which they are originally in part . ” — MAETZNER , English Grammar ...
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... pass to the idea of an event beyond a certain limit in time . The thing that is above another is easily thought of as superior , as it is at least in elevation . Hence we speak of a thing as above price , of a noble person as above a ...
... pass to the idea of an event beyond a certain limit in time . The thing that is above another is easily thought of as superior , as it is at least in elevation . Hence we speak of a thing as above price , of a noble person as above a ...
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... pass beneath it . ' " We might next explain what is so very common that a device found to serve well for one purpose is apt to be applied to many others . So many other relations besides those of place are expressed by prepositions ...
... pass beneath it . ' " We might next explain what is so very common that a device found to serve well for one purpose is apt to be applied to many others . So many other relations besides those of place are expressed by prepositions ...
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... pass around ; as , the movement of the earth about the sun . The slingers went about it , and smote it . We count for poets . . . all Who wind the robes of ideality About the bareness of their lives . 2 Kings iii , 25 . JEAN INGELOW ...
... pass around ; as , the movement of the earth about the sun . The slingers went about it , and smote it . We count for poets . . . all Who wind the robes of ideality About the bareness of their lives . 2 Kings iii , 25 . JEAN INGELOW ...
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... Passing through or over the surface of , so as to cross it ; crossing ; in the direction of a crossing line or movement . When my good falcon made her flight across Thy father's ground . SHAKESPEARE Winter's Tale act iv , sc . 3 , 1. 17 ...
... Passing through or over the surface of , so as to cross it ; crossing ; in the direction of a crossing line or movement . When my good falcon made her flight across Thy father's ground . SHAKESPEARE Winter's Tale act iv , sc . 3 , 1. 17 ...
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A. P. STANLEY Adjectives adverb amid Anglo-Saxon antecedent beneath Brutus Cæsar CARLYLE clause Compare connection CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS Defined and Illustrated derived direction Distinctions EMERSON English Grammar vol equivalent Essays expression fact force friends GEORGE ELIOT hath Henry Hist idea implied infinitive interrogative J. R. SEELEY JEAN INGELOW John Julius Cæsar king language lect LONGFELLOW LOWELL MACAULAY England vol MAETZNER English Grammar meaning Merchant of Venice Middlemarch midst MILTON Paradise Lost motion N. P. WILLIS never night NOTE.-In noun object omitted Paradise Lost bk participle person place or space R. H. DANA reason reference relative pronoun SCOTT Lady sense sentence Sermons SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE Merry Wives ship side soul speak speech Standard Dictionary Tempest act TENNYSON thee things thou thought tion unto usage various relations Venice act verb whence whither WHITTIER Windsor act words WORDSWORTH
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