First work in English: grammar and composition taught by a comparative study of equivalent formsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1875 - 352 páginas |
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... Verb 4. Other Pro - adjectives CHAPTER IV . - THE VERB . I. ACTIVE and PASSIVE II . OTHER SUBSTITUTIONS CHAPTER V. - THE ADVERB . 119 120 122 126 I. ADVERB replaced by ADVERBIAL PHRASE II . ADVERB replaced by ADVERBIAL CLAUSE III ...
... Verb 4. Other Pro - adjectives CHAPTER IV . - THE VERB . I. ACTIVE and PASSIVE II . OTHER SUBSTITUTIONS CHAPTER V. - THE ADVERB . 119 120 122 126 I. ADVERB replaced by ADVERBIAL PHRASE II . ADVERB replaced by ADVERBIAL CLAUSE III ...
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... VERB . 336 III . The ADVERB 337 IV . The PREPOSITION 338 V. The ITERATION of the CONJUNCTION 339 THIRD PART . SIMPLE AND ABSTRUSE . CHAPTER XIX . - GENERAL REMARKS . SIMPLE and ABSTRUSE TEUTONIC and CLASSICAL elements 340 99 Degrees of ...
... VERB . 336 III . The ADVERB 337 IV . The PREPOSITION 338 V. The ITERATION of the CONJUNCTION 339 THIRD PART . SIMPLE AND ABSTRUSE . CHAPTER XIX . - GENERAL REMARKS . SIMPLE and ABSTRUSE TEUTONIC and CLASSICAL elements 340 99 Degrees of ...
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... Verb ) , and the NOUN CLAUSE . These will be ex- emplified in order . But , first , there may be noted here certain important interchanges of Nouns among themselves ; and , lastly , attention will be directed to a looser interchange of ...
... Verb ) , and the NOUN CLAUSE . These will be ex- emplified in order . But , first , there may be noted here certain important interchanges of Nouns among themselves ; and , lastly , attention will be directed to a looser interchange of ...
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... Verb . ( As re- gards the term ' Phrase , ' see § 239 ) . From various causes , it is often desirable that a verbal abstract noun should give place to the simpler concrete infinitive ; and not unfrequently an adjectival abstract noun ...
... Verb . ( As re- gards the term ' Phrase , ' see § 239 ) . From various causes , it is often desirable that a verbal abstract noun should give place to the simpler concrete infinitive ; and not unfrequently an adjectival abstract noun ...
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... verb is restored , the preposition ( commonly ' of ' ) connecting the object with the noun form of the verb , is no longer needed . EXERCISE 33 . 1. Opposition was useless . 2. Resistance to your acts was necessary . 3. Starvation will ...
... verb is restored , the preposition ( commonly ' of ' ) connecting the object with the noun form of the verb , is no longer needed . EXERCISE 33 . 1. Opposition was useless . 2. Resistance to your acts was necessary . 3. Starvation will ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adjective Clause replaced Adjective Phrase adjunct Adverbial Clause ADVERBIAL PHRASE adverbial substitutes army battle of Sedgemoor cause Co-ordinate Sentence common Compare conjunction danger death demonstrative pronoun diligent ellipsis elliptical clauses enemy England English equivalent examples EXERCISE expected father favour force Gerund give given hath hear heart horse implied Infinitive interchange king land lives Lord meaning mind nature never night Noun Clause NOUN PHRASE NOUN replaced object Parliament person PLEONASM points back possess predicate prince prisoner Pronoun with preposition proper relative pupil Queen reference regarded relative clause Relative Pronoun replaced by ADJECTIVE replaced by ADVERBIAL replaced by CO-ORDINATE replaced by NOUN replaced by Participle restrictive river Robert the Bruce ship soldiers soon speak speech spoke stands statement thee things thou tion Tom lost transitive verb verb vocables whence whereby wherein whither words
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Página 253 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 98 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
Página 208 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul : the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Página 37 - When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
Página 30 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Página 314 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Página 33 - And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn, Seen where the moving isles of winter shock By night, with noises of the Northern Sea. So...
Página 331 - They who, deluded by no generous error, instigated by no sacred thirst of doubtful knowledge, duped by no illustrious superstition, loving nothing on this earth, and cherishing no hopes beyond, yet keep aloof from sympathies with their kind, rejoicing neither in human joy nor mourning with human grief; these, and such as they, have their apportioned curse.
Página 345 - My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well ; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely ; that, in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
Página 79 - Your friends have a privilege to play upon the easiness of your temper, or, possibly, they are better acquainted with your good qualities than I am. You have done good by stealth. The rest is upon record. You have still left ample room for speculation, when panegyric is exhausted. You are, indeed, a very considerable man. — The highest rank; a splendid fortune; and a name, glorious till it was yours ; were sufficient to have supported you with meaner abilities than I think you possess.