The Mother Tongue: Book II : an Elementary English GrammarGinn & Company, 1900 - 331 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
adjective modifiers adjective phrase adverbial modifier adverbial phrases adverbs antecedent appositive belongs Cæsar called CHAPTER common Compare complete predicate complete subject complex sentence compound subject conjunctions connected construction declarative sentences denotes direct object ending Examine the following EXAMPLES exclamatory sentences EXERCISES express action Fill each blank fire following sentences gender genitive groups of words Hence horse imperative sentences indicate indirect infinitive inflection interrogative sentences intransitive italicized words John king language main clause mention modern English noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns of-phrase passive voice past participle person or thing Pick plural number predicate adjective predicate nominative preposition present tense preterite tense question refer relative pronoun sense sentences containing ship simple predicate simple subject singular number speech stand strong verbs struck subjunctive subordinate clause substantive tell tences Thomas thou thought tive transitive verb verb-forms verb-phrases verbal noun vocative walk weak verbs Write
Popular passages
Page 106 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 15 - Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Page 120 - I'll do the best that do I may, While I have power to stand : While I have power to wield my sword, I'll fight with heart and hand.
Page 41 - It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring — It mingled strangely with my fears, Yet it felt like a welcoming. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze — On me alone it blew.
Page 126 - The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea...
Page 93 - The horsemen and the footmen Are pouring in amain From many a stately market-place, From many a fruitful plain; From many a lonely hamlet Which, hid by beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine...
Page 275 - ... as is the fashion of that creature, to swing itself from one beam in the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line on which it meant to stretch its web. The insect made the attempt again and again without success; and at length Bruce counted that it had tried to carry its point six times, and been as often unable to do so. It came into his head that he had himself fought just six battles against the English and their allies, and that the poor persevering spider was exactly in the same...
Page 63 - THE stranger who would form a correct opinion of the English character must not confine his observations to the metropolis. He must go forth into the country; he must sojourn in villages and hamlets; he must visit castles, villas, farm-houses, cottages; he must wander through parks and gardens; along hedges and green lanes; he must loiter about country churches; attend wakes...
Page 191 - A lodgment was effected. The Indians were driven from one post to another. They disputed their ground inch by inch, fighting with the fury of despair. Most of their veterans were cut to pieces; and after a long and bloody battle, Philip and Canonchet, with a handful of surviving warriors, retreated from the fort, and took refuge in the thickets of the surrounding forest.
Page 164 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.