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... adjunct ' " will generally be found the most suitable in all other cases . term 66 Bowdon , near MANCHESTER , March , 1853 . NOTICE TO THE FIFTH EDITION . The present Edition is an exact reprint of the last , with only one or two slight ...
... adjunct ' " will generally be found the most suitable in all other cases . term 66 Bowdon , near MANCHESTER , March , 1853 . NOTICE TO THE FIFTH EDITION . The present Edition is an exact reprint of the last , with only one or two slight ...
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... article , it is called a simple subject ; when adjuncts are employed to define its significa- tion more fully , it is called an enlarged subject . A. THE SIMPLE SUBJECT . The simple subject is always PART THE FIRST. ...
... article , it is called a simple subject ; when adjuncts are employed to define its significa- tion more fully , it is called an enlarged subject . A. THE SIMPLE SUBJECT . The simple subject is always PART THE FIRST. ...
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... adjuncts may be employed to enlarge the subject , if so used as to qualify the same noun : - Good , old , red wine is the best . In the same way , several nouns may also stand in apposition with it : - Wisdom , a crown and ornament both ...
... adjuncts may be employed to enlarge the subject , if so used as to qualify the same noun : - Good , old , red wine is the best . In the same way , several nouns may also stand in apposition with it : - Wisdom , a crown and ornament both ...
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... adjunct . ii . By a preposition , and the word or words depen- ding on it . He marched with a large army . The rolling year is full of thee . In silent horror , o'er the boundless waste The driver Hassan with his Camels passed . N. B. ...
... adjunct . ii . By a preposition , and the word or words depen- ding on it . He marched with a large army . The rolling year is full of thee . In silent horror , o'er the boundless waste The driver Hassan with his Camels passed . N. B. ...
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... ADJUNCTS OF TIME attached to the predicate , are used to specify one of the following conditions : - a . Some particular point or period of time answer- ing to the question , When ? He came yesterday . I get up at sunrise . He wakes ...
... ADJUNCTS OF TIME attached to the predicate , are used to specify one of the following conditions : - a . Some particular point or period of time answer- ing to the question , When ? He came yesterday . I get up at sunrise . He wakes ...
Common terms and phrases
2ndly Adjective sentence adjuncts ADVERBIAL SENTENCES RELATING Alfred Analysis of Sentences apposition assertion ATLAS Attila was buried attributive relation beautiful bounty Brutus Cæsar called classify co-ordinate sentences complete thought COMPOUND SENTENCES contracted in sub copulative ellipsis enlarged EXAMPLE exceedingly good horse EXERCISES finite verb following passages point following sentences according follows the construction form sentences given action grammar Greek Ground or reason happy hath heart heaven human infinitive mood inflexions instructed to form king laws of Syntax looks manner Maps mighty heart mind nature nominative nominative absolute Notional words noun noun substantive o'er occupies the place parsing participle PATERNOSTER ROW phrase predicative relation preposition Principal sentence causative Principal sentence co-ordinate pronoun pupil rela REMARK ROBERT THEOBALD rules of Syntax Schools sentence to f shew shining sun simple sentence specify subordinate sentence substantive sentence tence thou tion tive walk whence William the Conqueror words which form
Popular passages
Page 71 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 62 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 63 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 63 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Page 54 - And, but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now, And but for that chill, changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy...
Page 37 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse; which I observing Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 54 - And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 37 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side: But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies. He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 76 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.