An English Grammar ...Ginn & Company, 1892 |
Common terms and phrases
ADJECTIVE CLAUSE ADVERB CLAUSE antecedent APPOSITIVE Assertive sentence auxiliary beautiful belong bird called classes CO-ORDINATE commonly complement complex sentence COMPOUND SENTENCE CONJUNCTIONS construction Declension demonstrative pronoun denote dependent clause DERIVED direct object Draw one line England English language example Exclamatory express gender give given grammar horse imperative infinitives and participles inflection interjections interrogative pronoun Interrogative Sentence INTRANSITIVE VERBS irregular learned live meaning MODE modified nominative Noun clause noun or pronoun nouns and adjectives Old Conjugation Participial Infinitive passive verb-phrase past participle person or thing PERSONAL PRONOUNS Point possessive predicate adjective PREDICATE NOUN predicate verb prepositional phrase present participle present tense PRETERIT TENSE principal Pronominal Adjectives proper noun regular verb relative pronoun Root-Infinitive simple sentences Sing singular number sometimes speak speech spoken stands subject and predicate subjunctive substantively tell tence third person thou tion tive TRANSITIVE trees words Write
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Page 151 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 194 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.
Page 242 - Her deck once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea!
Page 130 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says.
Page 233 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Page 53 - Let it flame or fade, and the war roll down like a wind, We have proved we have hearts in a cause, we are noble still, And myself have awaked, as it seems, to the better mind ; It is better to fight for the good, than to rail at the ill...
Page 161 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 194 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Page 211 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 168 - That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. Till noon we quietly sailed on, Yet never a breeze did breathe: Slowly and smoothly went the ship, Moved onward from beneath.