Practical Lessons in the Use of English for Grammar Schools, with SupplementD.C. Heath & Company, 1889 - 342 pages |
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adjective adverb asserts auxiliary verb begin birds boat Bob-o'-link called capital letter chee choose chosen comma compound sentence conjunctions containing the following Copy the following declarative sentence denote dependent clause describe DICTATION EXERCISE exclamatory filling the blanks flowers following sentences following verbs following words form the plural friends future perfect tense Give an example hear heard infinitive interrogative intransitive verb kind line tell Little Bell look Mayor meaning meant Mention the verbs modified Name the subject Never forever object passive form past tense Perf perfect tense person or thing phrase placed plural Poss possessive forms predicate predicate consists preposition PRONOUNCING EXERCISE quotation Read relative pronoun Review Lesson ride second person second sentence simple sentence sing singular sound speak Spink stanza stood subjunctive tence third person third sentence thou walked Write five sentences Write sentences containing WRITTEN EXERCISES
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Page 107 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free...
Page 151 - You should have heard the Hamelin people Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple. 'Go,' cried the Mayor, 'and get long poles! Poke out the nests and block up the holes! Consult with carpenters and builders, And leave in our town not even a trace Of the rats!' - when suddenly, up the face Of the Piper perked in the market-place, With a, 'First, if you please, my thousand guilders!
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Page 152 - And what's dead can't come to life, I think. So, friend, we're not the folks to shrink From the duty of giving you something for drink, And a matter of money to put in your poke; But as for the guilders, what we spoke Of them, as you very well know, was in joke. Besides, our losses have made us thrifty; A thousand guilders! Come, take fifty!
Page 301 - My native country, thee — Land of the noble free — Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 108 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.