Progressive Exercises in English Grammar, Part I: Containing The Principles of Analysis, or English ParsingCrocker & Brewster, 1841 - 122 pages |
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... never can be rich . Who brands me on the forehead , breaks my sword , Or lays the bloody scourge upon my back , Wrongs me not half so much as he ( wrongs me ) who shuts The gates of honour on me . Who's ( who is ) here so base that ...
... never can be rich . Who brands me on the forehead , breaks my sword , Or lays the bloody scourge upon my back , Wrongs me not half so much as he ( wrongs me ) who shuts The gates of honour on me . Who's ( who is ) here so base that ...
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... never joined to nouns of the plural number . ] This city is two miles long and one mile broad . That plank is three inches thick . Salem lies fifteen iniles from Boston . What o'clock is it ? It is ten o'clock . Parse the following ...
... never joined to nouns of the plural number . ] This city is two miles long and one mile broad . That plank is three inches thick . Salem lies fifteen iniles from Boston . What o'clock is it ? It is ten o'clock . Parse the following ...
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... never govern an objective case . The corrected sentence is annexed to each in brack- ets . ] She was taught music . [ She was taught in music . ] He was forgiven the offence . [ He was forgiven for the of fence . ] He was promised a ...
... never govern an objective case . The corrected sentence is annexed to each in brack- ets . ] She was taught music . [ She was taught in music . ] He was forgiven the offence . [ He was forgiven for the of fence . ] He was promised a ...
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... never named ; the town's inquiring yet . The poisoning dame - You mean - I don't - You do . See , now , I keep the secret , and not you . The bribing statesman - Hold ! too high you go . The bribed elector - There you stoop too low . I ...
... never named ; the town's inquiring yet . The poisoning dame - You mean - I don't - You do . See , now , I keep the secret , and not you . The bribing statesman - Hold ! too high you go . The bribed elector - There you stoop too low . I ...
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... the nouns for which they stand ; and they are never used in the same part of the sentence with the noun which they represent . * See page 11 , No. 39 . 49. Relative Pronouns are those which stand for a noun 92 3356 PROGRESSIVE EXERCISES IN.
... the nouns for which they stand ; and they are never used in the same part of the sentence with the noun which they represent . * See page 11 , No. 39 . 49. Relative Pronouns are those which stand for a noun 92 3356 PROGRESSIVE EXERCISES IN.
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accent active verb adjective pronouns adverb agree apostrophe beautiful cæsura called canst comma Compound Perfect conjunction consists consonant Correct the following couldst derived ellipsis English expressed or understood following errors following sentences formed by adding frequently FUTURE PERFECT TENSE gender governed Grammar hadst happy hast hath Iambic idea IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood John kind language letters loved manner means mind namely neuter nominative noun noun or pronoun objective Parse the following PASSIVE VERB pause Perfect Participle phrases pleasure PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive POTENTIAL MOOD preposition PRESENT TENSE principles proper pupil relative pronoun Rhetoric RULE OF SYNTAX SECOND PERSON sense shalt or wilt signifies signs singular number sometimes sound speak style SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD Superlative Tell tences thee thing THIRD PERSON Thou art Thou shalt tion tive Trochaic Trochees verse virtue vowel words write written
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Page 100 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 23 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 85 - And this is in the night ! Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber: let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, A portion of the tempest and of thee...
Page 24 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Page 61 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 58 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 70 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 80 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that by ' the pleasures of the imagination,' or ' fancy' (which I shall use promiscuously), I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view, or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.
Page 102 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 88 - By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece.