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Pagina 16
... adverbs thickly and smoothly ? Your sense of what is fit tells you at once that the adjective , not the adverb , conforms to English idiom . For we must note that a good many verbs , besides the usual coupling verb be , attach an ...
... adverbs thickly and smoothly ? Your sense of what is fit tells you at once that the adjective , not the adverb , conforms to English idiom . For we must note that a good many verbs , besides the usual coupling verb be , attach an ...
Pagina 17
... adverb boldly ; the adjective high becomes the adverb highly ( " We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain " ) . You would , however , be wrong to regard -ly as the infallible sign of the adverb . Many ...
... adverb boldly ; the adjective high becomes the adverb highly ( " We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain " ) . You would , however , be wrong to regard -ly as the infallible sign of the adverb . Many ...
Pagina 67
... adverb ) used when two persons or things are considered together is said to be in the COMPARATIVE DEGREE ♪ sweeter in ( a ) , the comparison being between " melodies heard " and " melodies unheard " , is in the Comparative Degree ...
... adverb ) used when two persons or things are considered together is said to be in the COMPARATIVE DEGREE ♪ sweeter in ( a ) , the comparison being between " melodies heard " and " melodies unheard " , is in the Comparative Degree ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing