A Higher English GrammarLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 358 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
13th century abstract nouns accent action adjective adverbs affirmation antecedent applied called circumstance class noun clause co-ordinating collective nouns common Compare compound Conjugation conjunction connexion consonant dative definite article demonstrative derived diphthong distinct dropt ellipsis employed ending equivalent examples expressed feminine force gender gerund give gold Grammar hence idiom implies indefinite indicate INDICATIVE MOOD individual infinitive inflected inflexion interrogative intransitive language Latin lion loved MASC masculine material noun meaning mode mood neuter object old English oldest English original passive past participle past tense peculiar person phrase plur plural possessive predicate prefixed preposition pronominal pronoun reference relative restrictive seen sense sentence significant name signify Sing singular sometimes sonant speak speech spoken strong verbs subjunctive SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substitute suffix superlative things thou tion tive transitive verbs usage voice vowel sounds weak verbs whence words write
Popular passages
Page 183 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Page 88 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 344 - Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Page 45 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 46 - I love them that love me, and they that seek me early shall find me'; 'they that are whole have no need of a physician'; 'how sweet is the rest of them that labor!
Page 321 - Men look with an evil eye upon the good that is in others, and think that their reputation obscures them, and their commendable qualities stand in their light ; and therefore they do what they can to cast a cloud over them, that the bright shining of their virtues may not obscure them.
Page 183 - But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
Page 345 - There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense than those of the fancy and the imagination.
Page 282 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 30 - I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to? for to counterfeit and dissemble is to put on the appearance of some real excellency.