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... correct thus to assign would and could both to preterit and to present time ? Ans . Yes ; for when I say , " He would do it if he could , " both of them have reference to present time ; but when I say , " He could do it , though he ...
... correct thus to assign would and could both to preterit and to present time ? Ans . Yes ; for when I say , " He would do it if he could , " both of them have reference to present time ; but when I say , " He could do it , though he ...
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... to unauthor- ized combinations of letters : they do more mischief in this way than the learner can reap of good in trying to correct them . Convert the adjectives in italic into verbs , and the EXERCISES IN ETYMOLOGY . 45.
... to unauthor- ized combinations of letters : they do more mischief in this way than the learner can reap of good in trying to correct them . Convert the adjectives in italic into verbs , and the EXERCISES IN ETYMOLOGY . 45.
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... - tence and the present one thus transposed , are correct , by explaining that as a relative pronoun in one , and as a mere conjunction in the other . whom he once highly esteemed , he now vents his c 3 SYNTACTICAL PARSING . 57.
... - tence and the present one thus transposed , are correct , by explaining that as a relative pronoun in one , and as a mere conjunction in the other . whom he once highly esteemed , he now vents his c 3 SYNTACTICAL PARSING . 57.
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... Correct the errors in the following : ( KEY , page 22 ) . He dare not do it . - Thou knows I paid thee . - Each must go to their place . He which is now coming , is my friend . These sort of people will never succeed . — It was him and ...
... Correct the errors in the following : ( KEY , page 22 ) . He dare not do it . - Thou knows I paid thee . - Each must go to their place . He which is now coming , is my friend . These sort of people will never succeed . — It was him and ...
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... Correct the errors in the following : ( KEY , page 22 ) . My sisters shawl and my two brothers hats , were mislaid by the servant - mens negligence . - I spoke to thou and not she . He and they we know ; but who are you ? -He wishes you ...
... Correct the errors in the following : ( KEY , page 22 ) . My sisters shawl and my two brothers hats , were mislaid by the servant - mens negligence . - I spoke to thou and not she . He and they we know ; but who are you ? -He wishes you ...
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Accidence acephalous Acephalous lines anapest auxiliary verb brother called completed verb Conjugate conjunction Correct the false correspondence deemed duty enter into construction EXAMPLES FOR EXERCISE EXERCISE KEY expression false concord favour Form further examples George governed grammatical happy honour iambus indicative indicative mood John latter logical adjective logical noun nominative logical substantive logical verb subdivides MANUAL meaning mind MODEL EXAMPLES mood namely never nomi nominative and verb noun objective noun proper noun-substantive parsing participle perfect passive voice period divides personal pronoun pleasure plural possessive potential mood preposition preterit tense previous examples show primary division Principles Principles III prudent reason rebounding syllable relative pronoun rhetorical sense and construction sentence dividing singular speak speech spelling spondee subjunctive mood thee third person Thomas à Becket thou tive verb active verb and adverb verb infinitive verb irregular verb neuter verbs in italic virtue whole word
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Page 143 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
Page 85 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
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Page 148 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Page 143 - The very best will variously incline, And what rewards your virtue, punish mine. Whatever is, is right. — This world 'tis true, Was made for Caesar — but for Titus too : And which more blest? who chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed,
Page 142 - Where thy true treasure? Gold says, ' Not in me: And, ' Not in me,' the Diamond. Gold is poor: India's insolvent: seek it in thyself; Seek in thy naked self, and find it there ; In being so descended, form'd, endow'd ; Sky-born, sky-guided, sky-returning race!
Page 149 - I COME, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song; Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose .stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves opening as I pass.
Page 149 - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell.