A College GrammarRonald Press Company, 1928 - 323 Seiten |
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Active voice Adjectival clause Adjuncts Adverbial clause antecedent Appositive Auxiliary Cognate Object Collective nouns comma complete Complex sentence Compound sentence Compound subject Conjunctive adverb construction Continuous Tense Coördinate conjunction denotes Dependent Direct object expressed Future Perfect Tense gave gender Gerund Gerundial Phrase Give helped Henry Imperative Indefinite Independent clause Indicative Indirect Infinitive Phrase Interjections Interrogative Intransitive verb John kinds leave meaning Nominative Non-Limiting NOTE Noun clauses noun or noun-equivalent Object Complement Participial Phrase Passive voice PAST PARTICIPLE Phrasal position Possessive praised Predicate Adjective Predicate Complement Predicate Verb Prepositional Phrase Present Perfect Principal clause Principal verb Proper noun punctuation qualifies the noun qualifies the verb Relative pronoun Retained Object second clause Secondary Object sense sentence elements Simple sentence SINGULAR PLURAL speak Subject Substantive Subjunctive mood Subordinate clause Subordinate conjunction Superlative thing Third person thou thought tree voice sentence walked word
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Seite 157 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Seite 72 - They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Seite 215 - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents ; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
Seite 252 - Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain, Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock and together again, Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall. All down the hills of Habersham, All through the valleys of Hall, The rushes cried Abide, abide...
Seite 176 - My friends: No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Seite 22 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture 20 of the eater.
Seite 253 - Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly...
Seite 177 - Till I scarcely more than muttered 'Other friends have flown before On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Seite 139 - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Seite 72 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.