Essentials of English: Second BookAmerican Book Company, 1915 - 454 pages |
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active voice adjective phrase adverb adverbial clause adverbial phrase antecedent apostrophe appositive assertion beautiful birds called child complete complex sentences compound sentences coördinate copulative verb denote direct object ESSEN example exclamatory express feminine following sentences gender gerund give groups of words independent element indirect infinitive interrogative pronoun intransitive italicized words kind letter masculine meaning never night nominative of address objective complement ORAL AND WRITTEN ORAL EXERCISE parentheses Parse passive voice past participle past tense Perfect Tense person or thing personal pronouns predicate adjective predicate nominative preposition present tense principal clause refers relative pronoun second person second sentence seen Select sentences containing simple predicate simple subject sing Singular Plural story subordinate clause subordinate conjunctions substantive tell tences third person third sentence thou thought tive transitive verb verb phrase wind Write sentences WRITTEN EXERCISES
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Page 157 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Page 98 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventyfive ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, " If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, One, if by land, and...
Page 365 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 47 - Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Page 241 - Strike, till the last armed foe expires, Strike, for your altars and your fires, Strike, for the green graves of your sires, God, and your native land.
Page 409 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 369 - Twas moonset at starting ; but while we drew near Lokeren, the cocks crew, and twilight dawned clear ; At Boom, a great yellow star came out to see ; At Diiffeld, 'twas morning as plain as could be ; And from Mecheln church-steeple we heard the half-chime, So Joris broke silence with
Page 129 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 13 - THE minstrel boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him ; His father's sword he has girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him. " Land of song !" said the warrior-bard, " Though all the world betrays thee, One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, One faithful harp shall praise thee...
Page 119 - Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.