Grammar of the English SentenceHinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1903 - 300 pages |
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abridged adverbial element antecedent apposition believe called collective noun common gender complex compound conjunctive adverb connective construction coördinate copulative verb Declension Define denote direct object enallage English expletive expresses finite verb following sentences George give govern grammar grammarians infinitive copula infinitives and participles inflection interjection interrogative word intransitive italicized words John joins language limits meaning modified moved neuter gender nominative absolute noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns Ordinary Style parsed passive voice perfect participle PERFECT TENSE person and number personal pronouns Pleonasm plow Plural possessive preceding predicate adjective PRESENT TENSE principal sentence proper noun pupil question refer relation relative pronoun represent restrictive clauses rule scholar simple adjective element simple predicate simple subject singular Solemn Style sometimes speaker speech subjunctive subordinate sentence substantive clause teacher tell tence thing thou thought tion tive transitive verb write
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Page 104 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 279 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 140 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Page 281 - Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill.
Page 280 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken , the great scale 's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 279 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains: When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god: Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's, use and end; Why doing, suffering, checked, impelled; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Page 279 - He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.
Page 21 - Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
Page 140 - And all the rule, one empire: only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
Page 106 - WOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand — Thy axe shall harm it not! That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down?