The English Language: Its Grammar, History and Literature : with Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing, and PunctuationD.C. Heath & Company, 1887 - 466 pagina's |
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... POSSESSIVE CASE OBJECTIVE CASE 67 68 · DATIVE CASE 69 • ADJECTIVE PRONOUN 71 74 VERB · ADVERB 76 83 PREPOSITION CONJUNCTION ANALYSIS SIMPLE SENTENCE 83 84 86 87 FORMS OF SENTENCES 87 PARTS OF THE SENTENCE 88 NOMINATIVE OF ADDRESS 97 ...
... POSSESSIVE CASE OBJECTIVE CASE 67 68 · DATIVE CASE 69 • ADJECTIVE PRONOUN 71 74 VERB · ADVERB 76 83 PREPOSITION CONJUNCTION ANALYSIS SIMPLE SENTENCE 83 84 86 87 FORMS OF SENTENCES 87 PARTS OF THE SENTENCE 88 NOMINATIVE OF ADDRESS 97 ...
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... words decline and declension . ( Of course the nominative cannot be a real case , because it is upright and not a falling . ) Dative Obiective Vocative 31. We now employ five cases ; Nominative , Possessive CASE . 19.
... words decline and declension . ( Of course the nominative cannot be a real case , because it is upright and not a falling . ) Dative Obiective Vocative 31. We now employ five cases ; Nominative , Possessive CASE . 19.
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... Possessive . ( ii ) In Pronouns , the Possessive , Dative , and Objective are inflected . But the inflexion for the Dative and the Objective is the same . Him and them are indeed true Datives : the old inflection for the Objective was ...
... Possessive . ( ii ) In Pronouns , the Possessive , Dative , and Objective are inflected . But the inflexion for the Dative and the Objective is the same . Him and them are indeed true Datives : the old inflection for the Objective was ...
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... possessive Witenagemot ? ( i ) Lady - day , Friday , and Monday are fragments of the posses- sive of feminine Nouns in O.E. An old feminine possessive ended in an , which was then shortened into ladyë , lastly into lady . So with Frija ...
... possessive Witenagemot ? ( i ) Lady - day , Friday , and Monday are fragments of the posses- sive of feminine Nouns in O.E. An old feminine possessive ended in an , which was then shortened into ladyë , lastly into lady . So with Frija ...
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... possessive case ; and yet it is only gardener that takes the sign of the possessive . PRONOUNS . 1. A Pronoun is a word that is 22 GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
... possessive case ; and yet it is only gardener that takes the sign of the possessive . PRONOUNS . 1. A Pronoun is a word that is 22 GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
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Pagina 215 - 0, Sir, to wilful men, The injuries that they themselves procure Must be their schoolmasters."—Shakespeare. (d) " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance."—Pope. (e) " Who said that I had given thee up ? Who said that thou wert sold ?"—Mrs Norton. EXERCISE
Pagina 417 - that these are to be found in his " Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle,"—lines written about " the good Lord Clifford." " Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His daily teachers had been woods and rills,— The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Pagina 81 - ON EXCEPTIONS. 1. Sometimes the conditional clause is suppressed. Thus we can say, " I would not endure such language" [if it were addressed to me = conditional clause]. 2. The conjunction is often omitted. Thus, in Shakespeare's play of " Julius Caesar," we find— " Were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits.
Pagina 212 - Give me a looke, give me a face, That makes simplicitie a grace."—Id. (d) "His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wand'rings, but relieved their pain."—Goldsmith. (e) " Yet shall poor Tom find pleasant weather, When He, who all commands, Shall give, to call life's crew together, The word to pipe all hands."—C. Dibdin. EXERCISE
Pagina 231 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning."—C. Marlowe. (c) " Read in these roses the sad story Of my hard fate, and your own glory."—Carew. (d) " Thy gentle flows of guiltless joys, On fools and villains ne'er descend."—Johnson. (e) " The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide."—Burns. EXERCISE
Pagina 259 - Fairy tales. (c) Best way of spending holidays. (d) Advantages of the study and knowledge of geography. (159.) GRAMMAR. " I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said : ' Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the Desert. Near them, on the sand,
Pagina 404 - born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." 7. Burke's most famous writings are Thoughts on the Cause of the present Discontents, published in 1773; Reflections on the
Pagina 394 - not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, —must give his days and nights to the study of Addison." Lord Lytton also remarks: " His style has that nameless urbanity in which we recognise the perfection of manner; courteous, but not courtier-like; so dignified, yet so kindly; so easy, yet high-bred. It is the most perfect form of English.
Pagina 64 - and John—the subjects in these two sentences—are in the nominative case. Thus we find in Shakespeare's Henry V., i. 2. 188 :— " So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom." Here bees is the nominative to work ; creatures
Pagina 377 - could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words Hicjacet.