The Standard English GrammarChristopher Sower Company, 1905 - 202 páginas |
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... lives ; thief , thieves . These nouns are beef , calf , elf , half , leaf , loaf , self , sheaf , shelf , thief , wolf , knife , life , wife . Other nouns ending with single for fe , become plural by the general rule ; but wharf has two ...
... lives ; thief , thieves . These nouns are beef , calf , elf , half , leaf , loaf , self , sheaf , shelf , thief , wolf , knife , life , wife . Other nouns ending with single for fe , become plural by the general rule ; but wharf has two ...
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... lives a life of care . ” — “ And he dreamed yet another dream . " Intransitive verbs also become transitive when they have a causative meaning ; as , “ The company ran an extra train of cars . " - " The planters grow cotton and sugar ...
... lives a life of care . ” — “ And he dreamed yet another dream . " Intransitive verbs also become transitive when they have a causative meaning ; as , “ The company ran an extra train of cars . " - " The planters grow cotton and sugar ...
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... lives . When people are determined to quarrel , a straw will furnish the occasion . We mounted our horses and rode homeward . Properties of Verbs . The properties of verbs are Voice , Mode , Tense , Number , and Person . Voice . Voice ...
... lives . When people are determined to quarrel , a straw will furnish the occasion . We mounted our horses and rode homeward . Properties of Verbs . The properties of verbs are Voice , Mode , Tense , Number , and Person . Voice . Voice ...
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... live must die . The faithful ser- vant should be rewarded . She could have returned whenever she wished . He must increase , but I must decrease . If a man strive honestly , he may expect to succeed . All this passed much more quickly ...
... live must die . The faithful ser- vant should be rewarded . She could have returned whenever she wished . He must increase , but I must decrease . If a man strive honestly , he may expect to succeed . All this passed much more quickly ...
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... lives , respected ( present ) by all that know him . " - ' He lived , esteemed ( past ) by his friends . " - " He will live , honored ( future ) by his fellow - men . ” " When a participle is used merely to describe a noun or a pronoun ...
... lives , respected ( present ) by all that know him . " - ' He lived , esteemed ( past ) by his friends . " - " He will live , honored ( future ) by his fellow - men . ” " When a participle is used merely to describe a noun or a pronoun ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
according to Note according to Rule action asserted active voice antecedent apposition become plural better called clause complete predicate complete subject compound relative Conjugation conjunctive adverb connected DEFECTIVE VERBS denotes describes or limits EXERCISE I.-Correct EXERCISE II.-Parse express feminine finite verb following sentences Future Perfect Tense Gulf of Mexico I.-Correct the following imperative mode indicative mode infinitive mode interjection intransitive verb learning loved Masc meaning Mississippi River modified neuter gender nominative Note under Rule noun or pronoun Nouns ending object parsed passive voice past tense perfect participle person or thing Personal Pronouns placed plural number possessive potential mode preceding Preperfect prepositional phrase Present Perfect Tense present tense principal pronominal adjective proper noun qualified relation relative pronoun represents second person seen sentence is incorrect simple predicate simple subject singular number sometimes subject-nominative subjunctive mode suffixing superlative tence third person Thou mightst tive transitive truth vowel waters word
Passagens conhecidas
Página 184 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Página 186 - Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Página 151 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 162 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Página 155 - The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim : And the mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Fast he stealeth on, though he wears no wings, And a staunch old heart has he.
Página 104 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 140 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Página 23 - The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And ' Stanley ! ' was the cry. A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye ; With dying hand above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted ' Victory ! — Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!
Página 122 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 45 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.