Our Language: Its Use and Structure Taught by Practice and ExampleLeach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1887 - 394 pages |
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adjective clauses adverbs Alphonse Karr Analyze antecedent appositive assertive sentence begin called capital CHARLES KINGSLEY collective noun commas compound conjunctive conjunctive adverb connect copulative copulative verb copy dear denote describe descriptive direct quotation driving EXERCISE express father flowers following sentences Give your reason given infinitive inflected interrogative JEAN INGELOW king language lives meaning Miss modify never noun-clause object omitted outline parse passive person plural possessive preceding predicate predicate adjective prepositional phrase present pronoun punctuation refer relative pronoun reply root-infinitive rules s-form sails Samuel Underhill Select ship simple sing singular sometimes speak speech story subjective complement T. B. ALDRICH teacher tell tence TEST QUESTIONS things third-singular thou tive transitive verb trees verb-phrase wait William Shakespeare wish Write his letter written
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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 101 - So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did : So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawning Another blue Day : Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
Page 102 - While many a broken band Disordered through her currents dash, To gain the Scottish land ; To town and tower, to down and dale, To tell red Flodden's dismal tale, And raise the universal wail. Tradition, legend, tune, and song Shall many an age that wail prolong ; Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear Of Flodden's fatal field. Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear And broken was her shield ! xxxv.
Page 23 - The Frost looked forth one still, clear night, And whispered, '' Now I shall be out of sight ; So through the valley and over the height In silence I'll take my way. I will not go on like that blustering train — The wind and the snow, the hail and the rain — Who make so much bustle and noise in vain ; But I'll be as busy as they.
Page 23 - He went to the windows of those who slept, And over each pane...
Page 268 - Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard, and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving.
Page 9 - SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun.
Page 206 - And Gilpin, long live he; And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see ! AN EPISTLE TO A PROTESTANT LADY IN FRANCE.
Page 101 - SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
Page 17 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...