English Review GrammarF.S. Crofts & Company, 1925 - 261 pages |
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action active voice adjective clause adjuncts adverbial clause Adverbial Elements Indicating antecedent auxiliary verb clause see Sec combined condition conjunctions direct object elliptical construction equivalent example EXERCISE expressed following sentences FUTURE PERFECT TENSE future tense gender gerunds group of words indicative mood indirect infinitive phrase Interrogative Pronouns intransitive intransitive verb introductory word ject John known letter main clause meaning Modal Auxiliaries modifying the verb Nominative Absolute Note noun clause noun or pronoun objective complement omitted passive voice past participle past perfect tense past tense person and number person or thing personal pronouns plural number plural verb possessive preceding predicate adjective predicate noun prepositional phrase PRESENT PERFECT TENSE present tense regularly relation relative pronoun simple subject singular number singular verb soldiers sometimes speaker statement subjunctive mood subordinate clause tell tence tense forms third person tion tive verb-phrase walked whoever whomever writing
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Page 249 - For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade through a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing.
Page 246 - Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Page 246 - James's Park where fops congregated, their heads and shoulders covered with black or flaxen wigs , not less ample than those which are now worn by the Chancellor and by the Speaker of the House of Commons.
Page 249 - ... prefect that it was not hidden within the limits of that dignitary's ordinary search, — the more satisfied I became that to conceal this letter the minister had resorted to the comprehensive and sagacious expedient of not attempting to conceal it at all.
Page 210 - ... do, did, done draw, drew, drawn drink, drank, drunk drive, drove, driven eat, ate, eaten fall, fell, fallen feed, fed, fed feel, felt, felt fight, fought, fought find, found, found...
Page 248 - It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak. When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish. When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
Page 244 - The only reward of virtue is virtue ; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Page 1 - a word which shows the relation of a Noun or Pronoun to some other word in the sentence," and many other writers give substantially the same definition.
Page 244 - When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport : when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Page 60 - Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been ; 3. They have been. PAST PERFECT TENSE. 1. I had been, 1.