A Concise English Grammar: With ExercisesGinn, 1918 - 263 σελίδες |
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A Concise English Grammar: With Exercises George Lyman Kittredge,Frank Edgar Farley Πλήρης προβολή - 1918 |
A Concise English Grammar: With Exercises George Lyman Kittredge,Frank Edgar Farley Πλήρης προβολή - 1918 |
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ACTIVE VOICE adjective clause adjective modifier adjective phrase adverbial clause adverbial modifier adverbial phrase antecedent appositive Arctic regions asked auxiliary called cognate object Compare complement complete predicate complete subject compound complex sentence construction coördinate clauses copula denotes direct object examples EXERCISE expressed feminine future tense gender group of words ice drifts southward if-clause imperative indicative indirect discourse indirect question infinitive clause inflection John main clause masculine meaning mood nominative absolute noun clause parsing PASSIVE VOICE past participle past tense person and number person or thing personal pronouns polar bear possessive predicate adjective predicate nominative predicate verb preposition PRESENT TENSE rain reaches temperate latitudes relative adverbs relative pronoun sentences containing SHAKSPERE simple predicate simple subject singular number sometimes reaches temperate strike struck subjunctive subjunctive mood subordinate clause substantive superlative tell TENSE SINGULAR third person Thou thought tive transitive verb verb-phrase verbal noun Write sentences Write ten sentences
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Σελίδα 190 - Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice. From an opening between the trees, he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far, below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself...
Σελίδα 167 - A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession/ for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
Σελίδα 58 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Σελίδα 162 - All the sounds that nature utters are delightful, — at least in this country. I should not, perhaps, find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not, indeed, think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlor for the sake of his melody; but a goose...
Σελίδα 201 - ... undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.
Σελίδα 148 - She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious closet of good old English reading, without much selection or prohibition, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion.
Σελίδα 73 - Perfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been, 1. We have been, 2. Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been ; 3. They have been.
Σελίδα 6 - An adverb is a word which modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Σελίδα 208 - ... him: and thus, when we might be happy and quiet, we create trouble to ourselves. I have heard of a man that was angry with himself because he was no taller...
Σελίδα 16 - Sentence is a sentence that contains but one subject and one predicate, either or both of which may be compound.