English Grammar ; Punctuation and Capitalization ; Letter WritingInternational Textbook Company, 1905 - 607 oldal |
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16. oldal
... nominative , came the word declension , which in grammar means an orderly arrangement showing the nominative or erect form and the oblique or declined cases . In the sense that case is a falling , the nominative is not a case at all ...
... nominative , came the word declension , which in grammar means an orderly arrangement showing the nominative or erect form and the oblique or declined cases . In the sense that case is a falling , the nominative is not a case at all ...
17. oldal
... nominative forms , both in the singular and in the plural , these cases must be recognized , not by their forms ... nominative case . The nominative subject of a verb is the word that answers the question Who ? or What ? The boy can swim ...
... nominative forms , both in the singular and in the plural , these cases must be recognized , not by their forms ... nominative case . The nominative subject of a verb is the word that answers the question Who ? or What ? The boy can swim ...
20. oldal
... Nominative : Possessive : Objective : girl girls mouse PLURAL mice - SINGULAR Mary girl's girls ' mouse's mice's Mary's girl girls mouse mice Mary EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE Write expressions containing the possessive case singular of the ...
... Nominative : Possessive : Objective : girl girls mouse PLURAL mice - SINGULAR Mary girl's girls ' mouse's mice's Mary's girl girls mouse mice Mary EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE Write expressions containing the possessive case singular of the ...
21. oldal
... nominative , they are called copulas - something that couples , joins , unites . 3 . A noun in apposition with another nominative is itself in the nominative case . This function of a noun is very much like that of an adjective - it is ...
... nominative , they are called copulas - something that couples , joins , unites . 3 . A noun in apposition with another nominative is itself in the nominative case . This function of a noun is very much like that of an adjective - it is ...
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abbreviations action adjective adverb antecedent apposition beautiful begin Buckeye Engine business letters called capital clause commas common Complimentary close compound conjunctions conjunctive adverb connected construction correspondence Dear Sir denote dependent clause elements enclosed English envelope EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE express factitive father following sentences frequently function gender give grammar honor indicative mode infinitive inflection interrogative John kind language letter writing Lord loved marks matter modify the meaning never nominative noun obedient servant object omitted paragraph parse participle passive PAST TENSE periodic sentence person or thing pleonasm plural preceded predicate preposition Present Perfect President pronoun proper punctuation reference regarded relation relative relative clause relative pronoun respectfully restrictive clause Reverend rule salutation seen Senate of Canada separated singular sometimes tences thou thought tion transitive verb tree United usage usually verb phrases verbal verbal noun words written
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29. oldal - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
29. oldal - On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
15. oldal - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
49. oldal - I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.
18. oldal - THE DAY IS DONE. THE day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist : A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
4. oldal - For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established ; that is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
99. oldal - Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil, the better artist : in the one, we most admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
49. oldal - With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to my perusal. Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations than your information of there being such ideas existing in the army as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity.
17. oldal - And his musket moulds in his hands. Time was when the little toy dog was new, And the soldier was passing fair; And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue Kissed them and put them there. "Now, don't you go till I come," he said, "And don't you make any noise!
87. oldal - For time at last sets all things even — And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong.