Analysis of the English Language: With a Complete Classification of Sentences and Phrases According to Their Grammatical Structure; Designed as an Introduction to English Grammar |
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... friends . EXAMPLES . Thou art Peter . A VERB and a PRONOUN ( H 5 ) . EXAMPLES . It is I. Thine is the kingdom . A VERB and a PREPOSITION ( H 6 ) . EXAMPLES . Its idle hopes are o'er . The game is up . NOTE . The elements of a Predicate ...
... friends . EXAMPLES . Thou art Peter . A VERB and a PRONOUN ( H 5 ) . EXAMPLES . It is I. Thine is the kingdom . A VERB and a PREPOSITION ( H 6 ) . EXAMPLES . Its idle hopes are o'er . The game is up . NOTE . The elements of a Predicate ...
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... Friends are gathering . 41. Words are finished . 43. Thou shalt be punished . 2. Stars shine . 4. Planets revolve . 6. Rain falls . 8. Wind blows . 10. Ships sail . 12. Ducks swim . 14. Geese gabble . 16. Oaks fall . 18. Vallies rejoice ...
... Friends are gathering . 41. Words are finished . 43. Thou shalt be punished . 2. Stars shine . 4. Planets revolve . 6. Rain falls . 8. Wind blows . 10. Ships sail . 12. Ducks swim . 14. Geese gabble . 16. Oaks fall . 18. Vallies rejoice ...
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... friends . 46. Sugar is sweet . 48. Honey is sweeter . 50. Wisdom is desirable . 52. Falsehood is disgraceful . 54. John has been idle . 56. William has become wise . 58. We are friends . 60. Washington was president . 62. We are Romans ...
... friends . 46. Sugar is sweet . 48. Honey is sweeter . 50. Wisdom is desirable . 52. Falsehood is disgraceful . 54. John has been idle . 56. William has become wise . 58. We are friends . 60. Washington was president . 62. We are Romans ...
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... friends I love best . " Prin . XXIV . The Subsequent ( WORD ( T5 ) , of a Prepositional Phrase may be a EXAMPLES . " The firmament grows brighter , WITH every golden grain , As handful AFTER handful , Falls on the azure plain . " PHRASE ...
... friends I love best . " Prin . XXIV . The Subsequent ( WORD ( T5 ) , of a Prepositional Phrase may be a EXAMPLES . " The firmament grows brighter , WITH every golden grain , As handful AFTER handful , Falls on the azure plain . " PHRASE ...
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... friends of the opposite sex . " " I saw an eagle wheeling near its brow . " NOTE . When the Participle is intransitive the Phrase has no Subse- quent . But then the Participle has an Adjunct or one or more words " in Predication ...
... friends of the opposite sex . " " I saw an eagle wheeling near its brow . " NOTE . When the Participle is intransitive the Phrase has no Subse- quent . But then the Participle has an Adjunct or one or more words " in Predication ...
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Adjunct Phrase Adjunct Sentence Adverb Adverbial Phrase Adverbial Sentence ANALYSIS assert Auxiliary Sentence banner beauty beneath breath CHART Clark's Grammar Compound Sentence contents his natural cries death DIAGRAM distinct doth wave earth English language expressed friends Gender hand hath heart heaven Independent Phrase Infinitive Phrase Infinitive Verb Intransitive Sentence introduce king of shadows Leader Let Sentences Let the pupil mansion method mind NOTE Noun or Pronoun o'er Object Participial Phrase passed Phrase or Sentence pleasant sound returns poor whose covering Possessive Adjective Predicate PREDICATE-TWO VERBS Prepositional Phrase prevented his rising Primary Prin PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS Principal Sentence relation rising to civil saw an eagle Sentence-Why Sentences be written Simple Sentence sleep smiles song soul star Subject SUBJECT-A Subsequent Substantive Adjectives sweet Teacher tell tence thee things Thou art thought Transitive Participle Transitive Verb truth usury Verbal Adjective voice Why?-Def wisdom youth
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Page 24 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 104 - Whom mortals call the Moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees...
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Page 24 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 24 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
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Page 145 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 167 - Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into a liquid plain then stood...
Page 23 - She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall, And breathless darkness and the narrow house...
Page 23 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth, and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...