Foundation Lessons in English GrammarMacmillan, 1902 - 166 pages |
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adjective adjective-clause adjective-phrase adverb adverb-clause Analyze the following apposition assertion Auxiliary Verbs beautiful birds called comma complete complex sentence compound sentence conjugation conjunctive pronoun connected Coördinate Conjunctions copula defective verbs denote dependent clause English express action following select following sentences Future Perfect Tense future tense gender give grammar group of words heart horses indicative mode indirect object infinitive inflection interrogative intransitive king language learned live loved PLURAL loved thou meaning modifies Nathan Hale nominative noun-clause passive past tense Perfect Tense person or thing personal pronouns phrase possessive precede the subject predicate noun predicate objective preposition Present Tense principal member refers relation Sentences for analysis simple sentence sing single words sometimes speech statement subject and predicate subject-noun subjunctive verb-phrases subordinate conjunction substantive sweet sweet dove died syntax tell tences Tense SINGULAR thee thought transitive verb usually verb-noun wind words and groups
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Page 146 - Eske river where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 90 - If we fail it can be no worse for us. But we shall not fail. The cause will raise up armies ; the cause will create navies. The people, the people, if we are true to them, will carry us, and will carry themselves, gloriously through this struggle. I care not how fickle other people have been found. I know the people of these colonies, and I know that resistance to British aggression is deep and settled in their hearts and cannot be eradicated.
Page 91 - Sir, the declaration will inspire the people with increased courage. Instead of a long and bloody war for restoration of privileges, for redress of grievances, for chartered immunities, held under a British king, set before them the glorious object of entire independence, and it will breathe into them anew the breath of life.
Page 78 - Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice. From an opening between the trees, he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far, below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself...
Page 47 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 48 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows. "Friends," says he, "and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and, if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot...
Page 76 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered ; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses ! For it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man...
Page 101 - For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Page 15 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air...
Page 139 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.