Two Years' Course in English CompositionGinn and Company, 1912 - 377 páginas |
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... voice . If you stumble over a word , or pause in the wrong place , read the sentence till you can give it smoothly . MY FATHER'S FRIEND While my father was an officer of the English army in South Africa , we occupied a large cabin ...
... voice . If you stumble over a word , or pause in the wrong place , read the sentence till you can give it smoothly . MY FATHER'S FRIEND While my father was an officer of the English army in South Africa , we occupied a large cabin ...
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... voice , is due to - morrow . The girl who sat in the seat with you is my sister . In order that a relative pronoun may point clearly to its antecedent , it is best to place the pronoun just after the antecedent if possible . For example ...
... voice , is due to - morrow . The girl who sat in the seat with you is my sister . In order that a relative pronoun may point clearly to its antecedent , it is best to place the pronoun just after the antecedent if possible . For example ...
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... voice , mood , tense , person , and number . 81. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs . According to their use in a sentence , verbs are either transitive or intransi- tive . Transitive means going over . If the verb is transitive , the ...
... voice , mood , tense , person , and number . 81. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs . According to their use in a sentence , verbs are either transitive or intransi- tive . Transitive means going over . If the verb is transitive , the ...
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... Voice . In the sentence , James kicked the football , the subject " James " is acting , and the verb " kicked " said to be in the active voice . James does the kicking . the sentence , The football was kicked by James , is In the ...
... Voice . In the sentence , James kicked the football , the subject " James " is acting , and the verb " kicked " said to be in the active voice . James does the kicking . the sentence , The football was kicked by James , is In the ...
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Charles Lane Hanson. A verb in the active voice often has both a direct and an indirect object : My teacher paid me a compliment . If , in changing such a sentence to the passive voice , the direct object becomes the subject , the ...
Charles Lane Hanson. A verb in the active voice often has both a direct and an indirect object : My teacher paid me a compliment . If , in changing such a sentence to the passive voice , the direct object becomes the subject , the ...
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Página 254 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent.
Página 277 - By just his horse's mane, a boy: You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came through) You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. "Well," cried he, "Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon!
Página 84 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 43 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When...
Página 277 - My plans That soar, to earth may fall. Let once my army-leader Lannes Waver at yonder wall " — Out 'twixt the battery-smokes there flew A rider, bound on bound Full-galloping ; nor bridle drew Until he reached the mound.
Página 187 - I have observed that he was a simple, good-natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbor, and an obedient, hen-pecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Página 276 - You know, we French stormed Ratisbon : A mile or so away On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming-day ; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive with its mind. ii Just as perhaps he mused " My plans " That soar, to earth may fall, " Let once my army-leader Lannes
Página 244 - Now Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence ; so when he was gone to bed, he told his wife what he had done, to wit, that he had taken a couple of prisoners, and cast them into his dungeon for trespassing on his grounds. Then he asked her also what he had best to do further to them. So she asked him what they were, whence they came, and whither they were bound, and he told her.
Página 40 - To an American visiting Europe, the long voyage he has to make is an excellent preparative. The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impressions.
Página 253 - Advance, then, ye future generations! We would hail you, as you rise in your long succession, to fill the places which we now fill, and to taste the blessings of existence, where we are passing, and soon shall have passed, our own human duration. We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of the fathers.