First Lessons in English GrammarIvison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company, 1874 - 168 pages |
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according to Rule adjective adverb Analysis apples Arithmetic auxiliary verbs beautiful Blakeman bloom called classes clause co-ordinate collective noun common compared compound conjugate conjunction Conjunctive Adverb connected date respectively January definition degree denotes divided EDUCATIONAL REPORTER-Full express finite verb flowers Future-Perfect grammar grammatical persons horse IMPERATIVE MOOD Incorrect indefinite indicative mood INTERJECTIONS interrogative intransitive Ivison John kind lady lessons letters mail on receipt Mary Masculine meaning modified nominative noun or pronoun object parsing passive Past Tense Past-Perfect Tense perfect participle person and number person or thing phrase plural number possessive POTENTIAL MOOD predicate predicate-verb preposition present participle Present Tense Present-Perfect Tense Price principal pupil relation relative pronoun REPORTER-Full of interesting river rose rowed shows simple singular number sometimes speak spelling subject-nominative subjunctive mood subordinate superlative syllables syntax teachers and educationists tells tence thou tion tive transitive verb tree vowel words write written
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Page 7 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watchdog's...
Page 135 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 76 - You had been (thou hadst). 2. You had been. 3. He had been. 3. They had been. FUTURE PERFECT TENSE.
Page 30 - The Principal Parts of a verb are the present tense, the past tense, the present participle, and the perfect participle. These are called the PRINCIPAL PARTS, because by means of them and the auxiliary verbs all the other parts of the verb can be formed.
Page 160 - ... is carried to the next line. ' The Acute Accent; which marks stress of voice. The Grave Accent ; which shows a sinking of the voice, or brings out a syllable.
Page 115 - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell, Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possessed beyond the Muse's painting ; By turns they felt the glowing mind Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined ; Till once, 'tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound...
Page 161 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 78 - Plural. 1. I might have been, 1. We might have been, 2. Thou mightst have been, 2. You might have been, 3. He might have been ; 3. They might have been.
Page 4 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 116 - We, generally speaking, would say, that young men are best for business. But to proceed : it has been frequently remarked, that, etc. But it is time to proceed, and therefore let us renew the subject thus: Supplied words often vary the meaning, or make the sentence clumsy.