A Complete Grade Course in English Grammar and CompositionD. Appleton & Company, 1889 - 296 pages |
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... commas inverted at the right or the left of the words inclosed ? 8. For what is the hyphen used in this lesson . * " The Perfume of Flowers " is the heading . + When only a part of a sentence is quoted , the first word should not begin ...
... commas inverted at the right or the left of the words inclosed ? 8. For what is the hyphen used in this lesson . * " The Perfume of Flowers " is the heading . + When only a part of a sentence is quoted , the first word should not begin ...
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... Comma Rule . - The members of a compound sentence are usually separated by a comma when the second statement follows as a consequence of the condition expressed in the first . Sentences for Analysis . 1. The policeman ran rapidly ,
... Comma Rule . - The members of a compound sentence are usually separated by a comma when the second statement follows as a consequence of the condition expressed in the first . Sentences for Analysis . 1. The policeman ran rapidly ,
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... day [ 9 o'clock ] , or the day of the month and the year [ June 10 , 1887 ] . A comma should separate the parts of the date , or heading ; the address LETTER WRITING . 53 from the body of the letter 52 LETTER WRITING .
... day [ 9 o'clock ] , or the day of the month and the year [ June 10 , 1887 ] . A comma should separate the parts of the date , or heading ; the address LETTER WRITING . 53 from the body of the letter 52 LETTER WRITING .
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... commas be used ? Explanation . - At the end of the second line in the body of the letter there is placed a little mark ( - ) called a hyphen ; also at the end of the seventh line . 140. Rule . A hyphen is placed at the end of a line to ...
... commas be used ? Explanation . - At the end of the second line in the body of the letter there is placed a little mark ( - ) called a hyphen ; also at the end of the seventh line . 140. Rule . A hyphen is placed at the end of a line to ...
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... comma ; but two adjectives having a connective , as " smooth and transparent , " do not require a comma . Questions . - 1 . Why is a comma used between studies and recites in 2 ? 2. Why to separate the italicized words in 3 ? 3. Why to ...
... comma ; but two adjectives having a connective , as " smooth and transparent , " do not require a comma . Questions . - 1 . Why is a comma used between studies and recites in 2 ? 2. Why to separate the italicized words in 3 ? 3. Why to ...
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Page 260 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workman wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast and sail and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope.
Page 259 - We are lost!" the captain shouted As he staggered down the stairs. But his little daughter whispered, As she took his icy hand, "Isn't God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?
Page 260 - 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 221 - Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Page 260 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 187 - E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear.
Page 238 - The sea remembers nothing. It is feline. It licks your feet, — its huge flanks purr very pleasantly for you ; but it will crack your bones and eat you, for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam from its jaws as if nothing had happened. The mountains give their lost children berries and water ; the sea mocks their thirst and lets them die. The mountains have a grand, stupid, lovable tranquillity ; the sea has a fascinating, treacherous intelligence.
Page 244 - If we think of glory in the field, of wisdom in the cabinet, of the purest patriotism, of the highest integrity, public and private, of morals without a stain, of religious feelings without intolerance and without extravagance, the august figure of Washington presents itself as the personation of all these ideas.
Page 31 - An adverb is a word used to modify the meaning of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Page 239 - As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.