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Pagina 51
... Objective Case ; the pronoun his , denoting ownership of successors , is in the Possessive Case . The only remnant of the old inflexions for indicating the cases of nouns is the apostrophe and s for the possessive . Thus Master ...
... Objective Case ; the pronoun his , denoting ownership of successors , is in the Possessive Case . The only remnant of the old inflexions for indicating the cases of nouns is the apostrophe and s for the possessive . Thus Master ...
Pagina 158
... objective case , " governed " by old in Tennyson's Jewels five words long , That on the stretched forefinger of all time Sparkle for ever . words is similarly in the objective case governed " by the adjective long . LITOTES ( a ) I am a ...
... objective case , " governed " by old in Tennyson's Jewels five words long , That on the stretched forefinger of all time Sparkle for ever . words is similarly in the objective case governed " by the adjective long . LITOTES ( a ) I am a ...
Pagina 178
... OBJECTIVE CASE . ( See also " Transitive Verb " ) ( a ) The village street its ancient mansion lacks . ( b ) Some loss of habit's power Befalls me wandering through this upland dim . ( c ) I see her veil drawn soft across the day . ( d ) ...
... OBJECTIVE CASE . ( See also " Transitive Verb " ) ( a ) The village street its ancient mansion lacks . ( b ) Some loss of habit's power Befalls me wandering through this upland dim . ( c ) I see her veil drawn soft across the day . ( d ) ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus CÆSURA 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 inflexions instance Julius Cæsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective 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