Our Language, Smith and McMurry: GrammarB.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1903 - 263 Seiten |
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Abstract nouns active voice adjective clause adverbs antecedent appositive better brother called change of form collective nouns common nouns Compare compound sentences conjunctions coördinate denotes dependent clauses direct object English language EXERCISES express following blanks following sentences function gender give a reason grammatical group of words Henry indicative indirect infinitive interjection interrogative intransitive italicized language little Dauphin loved masculine means Middle English modify mood never nominative NOTE noun or pronoun object complement Old English paragraph Parse passive voice past participle PAST TENSE PAST personal pronoun phrasal plural possessive preceding preposition proper nouns question relative pronoun sentences containing simple sentences sing singular number speak spelling spoke strong verbs subject and predicate subjunctive subjunctive mood suffix sung superlative syllable tell tences TENNYSON TENSE PAST PARTICIPLE thing third person thou thought tion tive told transitive verb tree verb phrase Write
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Seite 67 - 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?
Seite 124 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes.
Seite 68 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Seite 150 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
Seite 128 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
Seite 151 - Rip Van Winkle once— old Rip Van Winkle now! Does nobody know poor Rip Van Winkle?" All stood amazed, until an old woman, tottering out from among the crowd, put her hand to her brow, and peering under it in his face for a moment, exclaimed, "Sure enough!
Seite 124 - Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends ; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain his private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
Seite 228 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 41 - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
Seite 76 - My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.