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... shines ; the moon moves ; the stars twinkle . The word the , again , in these sentences , is unlike the others ; it neither names anything nor declares anything ; it is never used except before a name , like sun , etc. We may say ...
... shines ; the moon moves ; the stars twinkle . The word the , again , in these sentences , is unlike the others ; it neither names anything nor declares anything ; it is never used except before a name , like sun , etc. We may say ...
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... shines , or stands , or writes , or went : the natural question is , " What shines ? " and so on . So , too , if we say the , with , golden , brightly , away , tall . But if we say the sun shines ; he writes with ink ; the tree is tall ...
... shines , or stands , or writes , or went : the natural question is , " What shines ? " and so on . So , too , if we say the , with , golden , brightly , away , tall . But if we say the sun shines ; he writes with ink ; the tree is tall ...
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... shines writes went ; good golden bright . Nor , again , can we take words of different sorts at hap- hazard out of a dictionary or spelling - book , and make of them sentences even foolish or false sentences . Thus the with golden ...
... shines writes went ; good golden bright . Nor , again , can we take words of different sorts at hap- hazard out of a dictionary or spelling - book , and make of them sentences even foolish or false sentences . Thus the with golden ...
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... shines : shines expresses what we de- clare to be true of the thing expressed by the sun . 6 25. These two necessary parts of the sentence we call the SUBJECT and the PREDICATE ( predicate is only a more learned and harder name for ...
... shines : shines expresses what we de- clare to be true of the thing expressed by the sun . 6 25. These two necessary parts of the sentence we call the SUBJECT and the PREDICATE ( predicate is only a more learned and harder name for ...
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... shines , we can say is shining , or is brilliant , or sends down rays , and so on , which mean nearly the same thing ; but in these phrases the is and sends are verbs ; words like shining , brilliant , rays , cannot make an assertion ...
... shines , we can say is shining , or is brilliant , or sends down rays , and so on , which mean nearly the same thing ; but in these phrases the is and sends are verbs ; words like shining , brilliant , rays , cannot make an assertion ...
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Page 203 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
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