An Advanced English Grammar: With ExercisesGinn, 1913 - 333 pages |
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ACTIVE VOICE adjective clause adjective modifier adjective phrase adverbial clause adverbial modifier adverbial phrase antecedent appositive Arctic regions asked auxiliary called cognate object common Compare complement complex clause compound complex sentence compound sentence compound subject construction coördinate clauses copula denotes direct object examples exclamatory EXERCISE express feminine following sentences gender group of words ice drifts imperative indirect discourse indirect question infinitive clause inflection interrogative lives main clause masculine meaning NOTE noun clause parsing PASSIVE VOICE past participle past tense person or thing personal pronouns plural polar bear possessive predicate adjective predicate nominative predicate verb preposition PRESENT TENSE reaches temperate latitudes relative adverbs relative pronoun sentences containing SHAKSPERE simple predicate simple sentence simple subject singular number sometimes reaches temperate speech strike struck subjunctive subordinate clause subordinate conjunction substantive superlative tell TENSE SINGULAR third person Thou thought tive transitive verb verb-phrase verbal noun Write sentences Write ten sentences
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Page 89 - The degrees of comparison indicate by their form in what degree of intensity the quality described by the adjective exists. There are three degrees of comparison, — the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. 1. The positive degree is the simplest form of the adjective, and has no special ending. It merely describes the quality, without expressing or suggesting any comparison.
Page 120 - The object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive, and the subject of the active verb becomes in the passive an adverbial phrase modifying the predicate verb. Active Voice My cat caught a bird. Austin thanked Charles. The bullet penetrated a tree. Sargent painted that portrait. The
Page 44 - Number is that property of substantives which shows whether they indicate one person, place, or thing or more than one. There are two numbers, — the singular and the plural. The singular number denotes but one person, place, or thing. The plural number denotes more than one person, place, or thing.
Page 247 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her I
Page 304 - Often have I wondered at the temerity of my father, who, in spite of an habitual general respect which we all in common manifested towards him, would venture now and then to stand up against him in some argument touching their youthful days.
Page 227 - 6. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious closet of good old English reading, without much selection or prohibition, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage.— Lamb.
Page 304 - By all means begin your folio ; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
Page 235 - on the white pine boughs behind my house, gives a voice to the air; a fishhawk dimples the glassy surface of the pond and brings up a fish; a mink steals out of the marsh before my door and seizes a frog by the shore; the sedge is bending under the weight of the reed-birds flitting hither and
Page 236 - They had seen me cut the cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift, or fall foul on each other; but when they perceived the whole fleet moving in order, and saw me pulling at the end, they set up such a scream of grief and despair as it is almost impossible to describe or conceive.
Page 228 - The clock has just struck two ; | the expiring taper rises and sinks in the socket; | the watchman forgets his hour in slumber; | the laborious and the happy are at rest; | and | nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. — Goldsmith.