A High School Grammar: Dealing with the Science of the English Language, the History of the Parts of Speech, the Philosophy of the Changes These Have Undergone, and Present Usage Respecting Forms in Dispute |
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action adjective pronouns adverb clauses adverb phrases alphabet assert attribute complement auxiliary called case-endings CHAPTER common complete conjugation conjunctive adverbs connectives consonant coördinate coul-d dative declension DEFINITIONS denote dependent clause diphthong distinction driving ending English express feminine future gender Give grammatical Greek ha-d Illustrate imperative indicative inflections interrogative intransitive introduce such clauses irregular language Latin letters Locutions masculine meaning migh-t Mn.E nominative noun clause noun or pronoun nounal verb nouns and pronouns object complement passive voice past participle past perfect past tense personal pronouns plural possessive predicate prepositions present perfect PRESENT TENSE preterit principal clause Proscribed QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES relation relative pronouns seen sentence SIMPLE FORM SING singular sonant sounds speech spoken stem strong verbs Subjects for Topical subjunctive substantive suffixes superlative things Thou thought tive Topical Recitation transitive verb usage verbal vowel vowel-change walk walk-ed weak verbs
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Page 37 - Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number.
Page 127 - Should I turn upon the true prince? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself, and thee, during my life; I, for a valiant lion, and thou, for a true prince.
Page 259 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 62 - A Simple Sentence Is one that contains but one subject and one predicate, either or both of which may be compound.
Page 181 - For a field of the dead' rushes red on my sight, And the clans of Culloden are scattered in fight. They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown ; Woe, woe to the riders that trample them down ! Proud Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain.
Page 260 - It is still the only word available to express the relation of a thing to many surrounding things severally and individually, among expressing a relation to them collectively and vaguely: we should not say "the space lying among the three points, " or "a treaty among three powers...
Page 170 - if I may go.' And further, we might proceed to constitute other moods on the same analogy, as, for example, an obligatory mood — 'I must go,' or 'I ought to go'; a mood of resolution — 'I will go, you shall go'; a mood of gratification — 'I am delighted to go'; of deprecation — 'I am grieved to go.
Page 53 - An Adverb is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Page 42 - An Imperative Sentence is one that expresses a command or an entreaty.
Page 272 - Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance : for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.