Four or five years hence, you will leave school, and must then converse by writing. Strangers will expect you to write well. If you do not study diligently now, you will then be ashamed and unhappy. Fifty years hence, the open fields around the Institution will be closely built up. Many years hence, God will destroy the world by fire. Do you expect to go to town to-morrow? "You have torn my dress." sorry." "Be more careful in future." Lesson 36. "" I 5. Phrases beginning with NEXT, are also used with the FUTURE, or the PRESENT in a FUTURE Shall we write letters next Monday? May I go to the city next Saturday? I hope to return home next July. You must come and see us next Christmas. Other Phrases. Monday week. Next Monday week. A week from Monday. Monday after next. (All these phrases have the same meaning.) Week after next. Year after next, &c. Examples. M.'s birth day is next Sunday week. next. There will perhaps be peaches on those trees the Fall after next. NOTE-In past time we use the next, or the following. See Lesson 53. Examples. "Sit down Sir. Mr. P. will be in presently." "Thank you. I cannot stop. I must go to town immediately. Tell Mr. P. I called." "May I go out, Sir? I will return in a moment." Henry (with leave), went out, and returned in a moment as he promised. "That child has fallen under the wheel of a cart. Oh! It will be instantly killed." Some time ago a child fell under the wheel of a cart. It was instantly killed. "I have not seen my brother in some years, but I am sure, if I meet him, I shall know him at once." Yesterday I met Mr. W. I knew him at once; but he did not know me till I told him who I was. At once. At one time. At one load, &e. Morphine will kill you if you take more than three or four grains at once. Some carmen wish to take a great deal at one load. They often hurt their horses. Lesson 38. 7. Phrases begining with in, or within are used. ༣. With the Perfect Affirmative. Miss S, has been home but once in five years. Mr. P. has been to Albany twice in two weeks. Mrs. W. has lost three children within six months. Many large cities at the West have grown up within a few years. 2. With the Perfect negative.2 Where is your brother? I have not seen him in some time. It has not rained in two weeks. M. has not heard from his family in some years. Miss R. has not been here in a long time. Wild turkeys have not been seen in the Eastern States in many years. 3. With the Future, or the Present in a Future Sense. It think it will rain in an hour or two. I expect my brother here in a few days. 1 The use of in, illustrated in Lesson 47, is quite different from those illustrated in this Lesson. In this case for may generally be used for in. See Lesson 45. "Will you buy my horses and wagon." "If I buy them, I cannot pay you for them in less than a year." "I cannot wait so long." Lesson 39. 4. With the Habitual Present. I can walk to the city in half an hour. A race horse can run a mile in two minutes. A locomotive sometimes runs a mile in a minute. Some birds can fly a mile in half a minute. Some men can run a mile in five minutes. You can go to Newark on foot in three hours. on horseback in two, and by railroad in less than one hour. The steamboats go to Albany in eight hours. The rail cars go to Philadelphia in five hours. A good team can plough from one to two acres in one day. Swift ships sometimes sail to China in three months. 5. With the Preterite. Mr. P. went out, but returned in a few minutes. A boy fell from the roof of a house, and died in about twenty minutes. |