Exercises in Grammatical AnalysisClaredon Press, 1868 - 224 pages |
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... Grammar there is no doubt whatever . In the singular number , ' Miss Smith , ' ' Smith ' is a noun , and ' Miss ' a qualifying adjective . If more than one ' Smith ' are spoken of , the ordinary plural is used , ' The Smiths are coming ...
... Grammar there is no doubt whatever . In the singular number , ' Miss Smith , ' ' Smith ' is a noun , and ' Miss ' a qualifying adjective . If more than one ' Smith ' are spoken of , the ordinary plural is used , ' The Smiths are coming ...
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... grammar , though very em- phatic and striking English . This is obviously a very rare liberty . Adverbs are formed from adjectives by adding ly ( in old English ' like ' ) to the word ; as- He spoke calmly . He acted violently . It ...
... grammar , though very em- phatic and striking English . This is obviously a very rare liberty . Adverbs are formed from adjectives by adding ly ( in old English ' like ' ) to the word ; as- He spoke calmly . He acted violently . It ...
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... grammar which all writers must observe . It is true also that there are certain main rules of sentence - arrangement which all writers must as a rule observe . But within these limits there exists a freedom wide as the range from ...
... grammar which all writers must observe . It is true also that there are certain main rules of sentence - arrangement which all writers must as a rule observe . But within these limits there exists a freedom wide as the range from ...
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... grammar only means learning to put the machine , which is in hourly use , together by name and in order . Sentence - analysis proceeds a little further , and shows how the parts fit in , and the But all do it . various ways in which the ...
... grammar only means learning to put the machine , which is in hourly use , together by name and in order . Sentence - analysis proceeds a little further , and shows how the parts fit in , and the But all do it . various ways in which the ...
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... grammar , and yet go against the habits of the language to such an extent as to make it entirely wrong ; wrong , that is to say , if in writing English it is wrong to put what no native of the country would write . On the other hand , a ...
... grammar , and yet go against the habits of the language to such an extent as to make it entirely wrong ; wrong , that is to say , if in writing English it is wrong to put what no native of the country would write . On the other hand , a ...
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Adjectival adjective adverb apace beautiful blow breath bulrushes clauses clear cloth College conjunctive mood creature cried the Frog curiosity doth Dragon-fly dry land English language English Notes Eton College EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE exclaimed the Frog expression eyes father fcap feel female FORM-SUBJECT IN ITALICS formerly Fellow French Grammar Greek hath hear heart hill INTRANSITIVE VERBS labour language Latin little fellow main idea mean mighty heart mind never night noun old English Oriel College Oxford P. G. TAIT participle pealed pluperfect tense plural poetry pond PREDICATE preposition Professor pronoun prose reader replied the Grub round seek sense sentence sight SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT Skiddaw soul speak speech sweet content tell tense thee thing thou thought told truth University of Oxford Uppingham School words writer young
Popular passages
Page 102 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 219 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 124 - Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 124 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 218 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Page 114 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 113 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Page 87 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Page 114 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St.
Page 208 - Uncared for, gird the windy grove, And flood the haunts of hern and crake, Or into silver arrows break The sailing moon in creek and cove; Till from the garden and the wild A fresh association blow, And year by year the landscape grow Familiar to the stranger's child; As year by year the laborer tills His wonted glebe, or lops the glades, And year by year our memory fades From all the circle of the hills.