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... assertion ( copula ) and the intel- ligible attribute of the judgment , constitute the bare predicate . It may be very simple , or very complex , involving the use of many words , Horses run . child will make herself a nuisance . - This ...
... assertion ( copula ) and the intel- ligible attribute of the judgment , constitute the bare predicate . It may be very simple , or very complex , involving the use of many words , Horses run . child will make herself a nuisance . - This ...
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... assertion an attribute of quality or condition , or a limitation of a sub- stantive idea , — good , sick , this . 3. An Adverb expresses an attribute or limitation of an attributive idea , as , degree of a quality , and the time , place ...
... assertion an attribute of quality or condition , or a limitation of a sub- stantive idea , — good , sick , this . 3. An Adverb expresses an attribute or limitation of an attributive idea , as , degree of a quality , and the time , place ...
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... assertion and a clearly determined attribute , Birds fly ( are flying ) . The action is unlimited in its nature . It is performed by the actor without reference to any other object . Verbs which assert such actions are said to be ...
... assertion and a clearly determined attribute , Birds fly ( are flying ) . The action is unlimited in its nature . It is performed by the actor without reference to any other object . Verbs which assert such actions are said to be ...
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... asserted depends upon the knowledge of what it is expended upon . Drawing cart , for instance , conveys a very ... assert action ( have does not ) , and in many that do , there is nothing that really " passes over " from actor to object ...
... asserted depends upon the knowledge of what it is expended upon . Drawing cart , for instance , conveys a very ... assert action ( have does not ) , and in many that do , there is nothing that really " passes over " from actor to object ...
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... assertion , showing that the relation of the attribute to the subject is not determined ; ( 2 ) as to any unknown substantive or attributive element in the statement . An interrogative sentence which asks after the truth of the assertion ...
... assertion , showing that the relation of the attribute to the subject is not determined ; ( 2 ) as to any unknown substantive or attributive element in the statement . An interrogative sentence which asks after the truth of the assertion ...
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action appositive assert attribute complement auxiliary bird bobolink called causal Classification common form complete complex sentences compound sentence condition connective Coördinating Conjunction copula definite degree dependent clause direct object distinct element English EXERCISE expressed subject gender Gerund giving given grammatical grave form idea idiomatic imperative incomplete indefinite pronouns independent indicative mode infinitive phrase inflected forms Interjections interrogative irregular language logical loved ment Modal Adverbs modifier nature noun Objective Complement old conjugation Parse Participial Phrases passive phrase past tense Perf perfect participle Perfect Phrase person and number personal pronoun Pleonasm plural possessive predicate Prepositional Phrase present tense principal verb progressive participle relation Relative Pronoun rhetorical reasons root infinitive second person singular number speech statement subjunctive Subordinating Conjunctions Substantive Clause suffix things third person thou thought tion tive transitive verb verb phrase verbal wants words
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Page 254 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 253 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 252 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable, and let it come ! ! I repeat it, sir ; let it come ! ! ! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.
Page 251 - Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Page 250 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation ? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Page 252 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 255 - O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew ! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God ! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't ! ah fie ! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Page 252 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week — or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed; and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Page 250 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 251 - I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?