A Practical Grammar: In which Words, Phrases, and Sentences are Classified According to Their Offices, and Their Relation to Each Other. Illustrated by a Complete System of DiagramsA.S. Barnes & Company, 1853 - 218 Seiten |
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action expressed action or relation Adjective Pronouns Adjuncts Adverb ANALYSIS Antecedent Auxiliary Sentence called commonly compound sentence Conj Conjunction construction describe a noun Diagram distinguished earth ellipsis English language EXAMPLES EXAMPLES-I Exclamation Exercises Gender Grammar Hence..a Noun Independent Indicative Mode Interrogative Intransitive ject John king of shadows modify Neuter Nominative NOTE Noun or Pronoun Nouns and Pronouns o'er object of relation OBS.-The parsing Participle Passive Passive Voice Past Tense Person and Number person or thing Phrase Possessive Possessive Adjective POTENTIAL MODE Predicate Prefixes Prep Preposition Present Tense Principal Sentence PRIOR FUTURE PRIOR PAST PRIOR PRESENT Pron proper Regular Verb relation expressed Relative Pronoun RULE SENTENCE-PRINCIPAL Shows a relation simply declares Singular Number sometimes Specifying Adjectives spoken storm Subject SUBJUNCTIVE MODE Substantive Suffixes Superlative syllables teacher tence thee Third Person Thou Transitive Transitive Verbs Verbal Adjective walked Word of Euphony
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Seite 177 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Seite 40 - Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic necessity ; he composed without consideration, and published without correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply.
Seite 65 - But thou art here — thou fill'st The solitude. Thou art in the soft winds That run along the summit of these trees In music; thou art in the cooler breath That from the inmost darkness of the place Comes, scarcely felt; the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh moist ground, are all instinct with thee.
Seite 178 - And there lay the rider, distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Seite 39 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Seite 122 - Thus star by star declines Till all are passed away, As morning high and higher shines To pure and perfect day : Nor sink those stars in empty night ; They hide themselves in heaven's own light.
Seite 210 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Seite 91 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have...
Seite 192 - God! Thou hast made thy children mighty By the touch of the mountain sod. Thou hast fixed our ark of refuge Where the spoiler's foot ne'er trod ; For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers...
Seite 168 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...