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... of Speech The Parts of Speech Phrases Sentences Analysis . Nouns Gender , Number , and Case of Nouns Adjectives Pronouns Verbs PAGE 7 7 9 19 21 29 34 38 42 51 55 57 61 • 66 Auxiliary Verbs and Others sometimes mistaken for them . Verbal.
... of Speech The Parts of Speech Phrases Sentences Analysis . Nouns Gender , Number , and Case of Nouns Adjectives Pronouns Verbs PAGE 7 7 9 19 21 29 34 38 42 51 55 57 61 • 66 Auxiliary Verbs and Others sometimes mistaken for them . Verbal.
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... PRONOUN . - The pronoun is a word used instead of a noun . We point out that there are five kinds , according to the ways in which they are used in the place of nouns , and that the personal and relative pronouns are made definite by ...
... PRONOUN . - The pronoun is a word used instead of a noun . We point out that there are five kinds , according to the ways in which they are used in the place of nouns , and that the personal and relative pronouns are made definite by ...
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... PRONOUN . The pronoun is a word used instead of a noun . We point out that there are five kinds , according to the ways in which they are used in the place of nouns , and that the personal and relative pronouns are made definite by ...
... PRONOUN . The pronoun is a word used instead of a noun . We point out that there are five kinds , according to the ways in which they are used in the place of nouns , and that the personal and relative pronouns are made definite by ...
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... to a noun which has been naturalised is pedantic , and shows bad taste . Cases are the different forms of the terminations of nouns , adjectives , and pronouns , by which we NOUNS . 55 Gender, Number, and Case of Nouns.
... to a noun which has been naturalised is pedantic , and shows bad taste . Cases are the different forms of the terminations of nouns , adjectives , and pronouns , by which we NOUNS . 55 Gender, Number, and Case of Nouns.
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Richard Morris, Herbert Courthope Bowen. nouns , adjectives , and pronouns , by which we denote the various relations of these words to other words in the same sentence . In modern English , nouns have lost every case except the ...
Richard Morris, Herbert Courthope Bowen. nouns , adjectives , and pronouns , by which we denote the various relations of these words to other words in the same sentence . In modern English , nouns have lost every case except the ...
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3rd pers adjective adverb analysis auxiliary verbs BALFOUR STEWART belong boy twice struck classes Classical Antiquities clearly Compare the cruel conjunctions consider the inflexions cruel boy struck cruel boy twice definition diphthongs divided dream examples exercise is set exercise the pupil explain expressed eyes facts following exercise following sentences fond gender GEORGE GROVE hand hath hear heaven INTERJECTION intransitive John John of Gaunt join words language lesson look lord mark meaning mixed exercise mood morn noun-phrases o'er Owens College PARSING participle personal and relative phrases predicate prepositions Primer Prince pupil's attention regard relative pronouns roots round sentence in question simple sentences sing speech spoken statement stones stood struck his dog subjunctive mood suffixes syntax teacher tense thee thing we speak thou thought tions treat unto verb-phrases verbal nouns word tells Words which tell
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Page 40 - 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, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey — that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Page 51 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 40 - Oh, weep for Adonais !—The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought, Who were his flocks, whom near the living streams Of his young spirit he fed, and whom he taught The love which was its music...
Page 37 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 36 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him; and our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence, when we confess without confession that his glory is inexplicable, his greatness above our capacity and reach.
Page 85 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Page 60 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures...
Page 37 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Page 38 - Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, And the harbor bar be moaning. Three corpses lay out on the shining sands In the morning gleam as the tide went down...
Page 37 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.