An Advanced English Grammar: With ExercisesGinn, 1913 - 333 pages |
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ACTIVE VOICE adjective clause adjective modifier adjective phrase adverb adverbial clause adverbial modifier adverbial phrase antecedent appositive Arctic regions asked auxiliary called clause modifies cognate object Compare complement complex clause compound complex sentence compound sentence compound subject condition construction coördinate clauses copula denotes direct object ending examples exclamatory express following sentences gender group of words imperative indicative indirect discourse indirect question infinitive clause inflection interrogative lives main clause masculine meaning NOTE noun clause older English parsing PASSIVE VOICE past participle past tense perfect 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 second person 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 walk
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Page 294 - She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half-and-half players, who have no objection to take a hand, if you want one to make up a rubber; who affirm that they have no pleasure in winning; that they like to win one game and lose another; that they can while away an hour very agreeably at a card-table, but are indifferent whether they play or no ; and will desire an adversary, who has slipped a wrong card, to take it up and play another.
Page 79 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Page 221 - 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! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory!
Page 276 - Tower twined themselves about his presence. He seemed above human infirmities and passions. A sort of melancholy grandeur invested him. From some inexplicable doom I fancied him obliged to go about in an eternal suit of mourning, a captive, a stately being, let out of the Tower on Saturdays.
Page 221 - 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. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion.
Page 114 - They might have been. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. Present Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. If I be, 1. If we be, 2. If thou be, 2.
Page 17 - A Clause is a group of words that forms part of a sentence and that contains a subject and a predicate.
Page 271 - NIGHT a family had gathered round their hearth, and piled it high with the driftwood of mountain streams, the dry cones of the pine, and the splintered ruins of great trees that had come crashing down the precipice. Up the chimney roared the fire, and brightened the room with its broad blaze. The faces of the father and mother had a sober gladness; the children laughed; the eldest daughter was the image of Happiness at seventeen; and the aged grandmother, who sat knitting in the warmest place, was...
Page 215 - Mr. Lewis sent me an account of Dr. Arbuthnot's illness which is a very sensible affliction to me, who by living so long out of the world have lost that hardness of heart contracted by years and general conversation. I am daily losing friends, and neither seeking nor getting others. Oh, if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it I would burn my Travels, but however he is not without fault.
Page 217 - ... 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 thither...