Steps in English: Book I-II, Book 2 |
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... paragraphs , substitute phrases for clauses and clauses for phrases , make clear the antecedents of pronouns , use words that are more exact and more suggestive , be sure that your punctuation marks really add to clearness . Keep your ...
... paragraphs , substitute phrases for clauses and clauses for phrases , make clear the antecedents of pronouns , use words that are more exact and more suggestive , be sure that your punctuation marks really add to clearness . Keep your ...
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... paragraphs of an experi- ence of your own , — you paid too much for an article , bought the wrong article , forgot what you ... paragraph about a childhood experience with a sled or with skates . Write two or three paragraphs about any ...
... paragraphs of an experi- ence of your own , — you paid too much for an article , bought the wrong article , forgot what you ... paragraph about a childhood experience with a sled or with skates . Write two or three paragraphs about any ...
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... paragraphs about the first day of school ; about a snowstorm ; about a thaw ; about the coming of spring or autumn ; about a bright summer day ; about a very cold winter day ; about a thunderstorm ; about a hailstorm ; about any recent ...
... paragraphs about the first day of school ; about a snowstorm ; about a thaw ; about the coming of spring or autumn ; about a bright summer day ; about a very cold winter day ; about a thunderstorm ; about a hailstorm ; about any recent ...
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... paragraph as your own composition , insert the necessary quotation marks : I see by the Pittsburg Times that the author of The Lean Years has gone abroad on The City of Paris , accompanied by the editor of The New World . It is said ...
... paragraph as your own composition , insert the necessary quotation marks : I see by the Pittsburg Times that the author of The Lean Years has gone abroad on The City of Paris , accompanied by the editor of The New World . It is said ...
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... paragraph does the incident proper begin ? What then is the purpose of the first paragraph ? Is the introduction easy and natural ? How are the different speeches separated from one another ? Notice how the quotation marks are used in ...
... paragraph does the incident proper begin ? What then is the purpose of the first paragraph ? Is the introduction easy and natural ? How are the different speeches separated from one another ? Notice how the quotation marks are used in ...
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action adjective adverb adverbial clause apposition assertion attribute complement auxiliary beautiful Bruce called collective noun comma Comp complete composition compound sentence Conj conjunction coördinate DEFINITION denote diagram the following exclamation point exclamatory Exercise expletive express factitive complement father feeling finite verb following sentences gender girl give grammar group of words imperative indicated indirect object infinitive inflection intransitive intransitive verb John kind letter loved mode modify the meaning never nominative Note noun or pronoun object complement omitted paragraph parse passive voice past participle PAST PERFECT past tense PERFECT TENSE personal pronoun phrase picture Plural Number possessive preposition present perfect PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE punctuation pupils relation relative pronoun rule selection Sing Singular Number speech STEPS ENG subject and predicate Subjunctive subordinate conjunction suggestive teacher tell tences Thou thought tive trees Write
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Page 185 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 325 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When...
Page 75 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 226 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth.
Page 10 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 195 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 282 - DRIVING HOME THE COWS. OUT of the clover and blue-eyed grass, He turned them into the river-lane ; One after another he let them pass, Then fastened the meadow bars again. Under the willows and over the hill, He patiently followed their sober pace ; The merry whistle for once was still, And something shadowed the sunny face. Only a boy ! and his father had said, He never could let his youngest go ; Two already were lying dead Under the feet of the trampling foe.
Page 209 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 292 - THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea. The plowman homeward plods his weary way ; And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 297 - I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ : all is well and wisely put ; If I can not carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut...