English Grammar

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American book Company, 1912 - 271 páginas

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Página 134 - 3. Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 4. Run upstairs and get my glasses. 5. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. 6. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul! As the swift seasons roll. Leave thy low-vaulted past, Let each new temple, nobler than the last, 7. Laugh, and the world laughs with you. 8. Work till the last beam fadeth,
Página 199 - 7. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As rain from the clouds in summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.
Página 192 - 5. If you save the pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves. 6. Where the purple violet grows, Where the bubbling water flows, Where the grass is fresh and fine, Pretty cow, go there and dine.
Página 257 - to an attorney, set up for a dandy and a critic, characters hitherto unknown in these parts; and he confounded the worthy folks exceedingly by talking about Kean, the opera, and the "Edinburgh Review.
Página 193 - have pinched and shaken all the life out of an earthworm, as Italian cooks pound all the spirit out of a steak, and then gulped him, they stand up in honest self-confidence, expand their red waistcoats with
Página 183 - hollered " with all my might, as everybody does with oxen, as if they were born deaf, and whacked them with the long lash over the head, just as the big folks did when they drove. LXXI. ADVERBIAL CLAUSES OF CAUSE, PURPOSE, AND RESULT 285. One action or condition may cause some other
Página 48 - the following simple sentences: — Model. — Then a piece of mica, or a little pool, or even a highly polished leaf will flash like a heliograph. This is a simple, declarative sentence. The subject is a piece of mica, or a little pool, or even a highly polished leaf. The predicate is
Página 98 - you, he, it, etc., show by their form that they refer to the person speaking, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of. The pronoun
Página 169 - was neither handsome nor interesting, but he knew how to take care of himself. 6. Sheep are usually kept in flocks of from one thousand to three thousand under one or more shepherds. 7. Rabbits telegraph each other by thumping on the ground with their hind feet. 8. Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving ? 9. Breast
Página 128 - Perfect Tense Singular Plural I have been we have been thou hast been you have been he has been they have been Past Perfect Tense Singular Plural I had been we had been

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