A Shorter Course in English Grammar and CompositionIvison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1880 - 189 pages |
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active voice adjectives antecedents apposition belong board and learned called comma commence with capitals complete complex sentences COMPOSITION EXERCISE compound sentences conjunctive adverbs coördinate defective verbs Define denote employed examples of grammatical following sentences foregoing sentences Form sentences containing Form sentences illustrating full-face type Future perfect FUTURE PERFECT TENSE gender Give examples Give the synopsis Give the syntax grammatical predicates grammatical subject infinitive interjections intransitive language Let the pupils Let the teacher logical predicate logical subject loved Name nominative noun or pronoun object Open your readers passive voice Past perfect perfect participle PERFECT TENSE person or thing personal pronouns point out examples possessive potential indicative prepositions Present perfect principal clause readers and point relation relative pronoun rule for punctuation seen sense simple sentences subjective complement subjunctive subordinate clause Take your readers tell third person thou tion transitive verb trees underline Write sentences containing Write sentences illustrating
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Page 133 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Page 133 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 169 - Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred there, and had his claims allowed ; The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire and talked the night away, Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won.
Page 172 - ship-boy on the high and giddy mast," but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot : yet if I was restless and discontented, I can safely say, it was not so much on account of this, as of my being precluded from all possibility of reading; as my master did not possess, nor do I recollect seeing during the whole time of my abode with him, a single book of any description, except the...
Page 29 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 84 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own...
Page 66 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.