School GrammarAmerican Book Company, 1907 - 317 pàgines |
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abstract nouns accented ACTIVE VOICE adjective modifiers adjective phrase adverb adverbial clause adverbial phrase amphibrach ANAPESTIC antecedent apposition auxiliary verbs birds called comma concord conjunction connected DACTYLIC declarative sentence DEFINITION denoting elements English EXERCISE express feminine following sentences FUTURE PERFECT TENSE gender give a reason GRAM grammar imperative mode independent clause indicative mode infinitive inflection interrogative intransitive kind language Latin masculine modify the meaning nominative notional verb noun clause noun or pronoun noun phrase object parse passive voice Past Participle PAST TENSE PERFECT TENSE person or thing personal pronoun poetry possessive predicate complement prefix preposition Present Past PRESENT PERFECT principal clause relative pronoun rime rule seen Shakespeare Singular Plural sometimes speak spoken SUBJECT WORD subjunctive mode subordinate clause suffix superlative syllables syllables rime tell tence TENSE Singular thee third person Thou tion tive transitive verb TROCHAIC VOICE Plural walk write
Passatges populars
Pàgina 254 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touched his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Pàgina 111 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Pàgina 143 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Pàgina 192 - Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Pàgina 254 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Pàgina 215 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
Pàgina 245 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Pàgina 99 - Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother.
Pàgina 128 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Pàgina 140 - Weep no more, woeful Shepherds, weep no more ! For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...