English Grammar: Illustrated by Exercises in Composition, Analyzing and Parsing |
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adjectives adjunct adverbs ANALYZED AND PARSED apposition auxiliary bird Board or Slate called Charles reads Cicero clause comma common noun COMPOSITION compound sentence conjunction consonant denotes the thing derived ellipsis EXAMPLES explained flower following expressions following nouns following sentences following verbs gender gone Grammar horse Imperative mode Imperfect tense Indicative mode Infinitive mode intransitive irregular verbs joined kind learner letter meaning Model modified predicate modified subject nominative NOTE noun or pronoun number and person object omitted passive form perfect participle person or thing Pluperfect tense plural number possessive Potential mode prefixed preposition Present tense Progressive form rain regular verbs relative clause relative pronoun REMARK represents Rule XXII Second Future second sound sense signifies simple sentences Singular sometimes speech spoken stands Subjunctive mode syllable tence third person third sound Thou tive transitive verb tree Trochaic trochees verb love vowel wind
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Page 175 - And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
Page 147 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Page 189 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Page 214 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 213 - Other Romans shall arise, Heedless of a soldier's name, Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize, Harmony the path to fame. Then the progeny that springs From the forests of our land, Armed with thunder, clad with wings, Shall a wider world command.
Page 213 - Strikes thro' their wounded hearts the sudden dread; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of death.
Page 214 - I seem to myself to behold this city, the ornament of the earth, and the capital of all nations, suddenly involved in one conflagration. I see before me the slaughtered heaps of citizens, lying unburied in the midst of their ruined country. The furious countenance of Cethegus rises to my view, while, with a savage joy, he is triumphing in your miseries.
Page 213 - Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.
Page 213 - Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Page 220 - In the following instances, and in many others it is difficult to determine whether the verb was deduced from the noun, or the noun from the verb, viz: love, to love; hate, to hate: fear, to fear; sleep, to sleep; walk, to walk; ride, to ride; act, to act, &c.