The Structure of the English SentenceAmerican book Company, 1900 - 244 من الصفحات |
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... NOTE . To ascertain the use of a relative pronoun in a clause , substitute the antecedent for the pronoun , and observe how the antecedent is used . Sometimes this substitution requires a slight change in the arrangement of the words of ...
... NOTE . To ascertain the use of a relative pronoun in a clause , substitute the antecedent for the pronoun , and observe how the antecedent is used . Sometimes this substitution requires a slight change in the arrangement of the words of ...
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... NOTES . 1. When as introduces an adjective clause , the verb of the clause is frequently omitted ; as , " Their military code bore the same stern features as their other laws ( bore ) . " . -Prescott . - 2. The use of the relative ...
... NOTES . 1. When as introduces an adjective clause , the verb of the clause is frequently omitted ; as , " Their military code bore the same stern features as their other laws ( bore ) . " . -Prescott . - 2. The use of the relative ...
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... NOTE . The adjective clause may modify a noun or pronoun in the possessive case ; as , " The world is his who has money to go over it . " - Emerson . POSITION OF CLAUSE 66 - 35 Position of the Adjective 34 THE ADJECTIVE CLAUSE.
... NOTE . The adjective clause may modify a noun or pronoun in the possessive case ; as , " The world is his who has money to go over it . " - Emerson . POSITION OF CLAUSE 66 - 35 Position of the Adjective 34 THE ADJECTIVE CLAUSE.
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... NOTE . Do not talk about " complete subject " and " simple sub- ject , " neither " logical predicate " and " grammatical predicate . " The subject is the subject ; the predicate is the predicate . That ends it . SUGGESTIONS 39 6. If the ...
... NOTE . Do not talk about " complete subject " and " simple sub- ject , " neither " logical predicate " and " grammatical predicate . " The subject is the subject ; the predicate is the predicate . That ends it . SUGGESTIONS 39 6. If the ...
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... NOTE . In the following sentences from Robert Louis Steven- son it is interesting to observe how such a sentence as the one just described comes about : 66 In the midst of this Babylon I found myself a rallying point ; every one was ...
... NOTE . In the following sentences from Robert Louis Steven- son it is interesting to observe how such a sentence as the one just described comes about : 66 In the midst of this Babylon I found myself a rallying point ; every one was ...
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
absolute phrase adverb adverbial clause adverbial noun appositive Bagehot base-word Bolles Boyesen Burroughs called Carlyle CHAPTER clause modifies clause of degree clause of manner compound sentence construction coördinating denoting action Dickens direct object ellipsis Emerson equivalent example Exercise expression following sentences frequently Froude George Eliot gerund grammatical group of words Hawthorne heart hence Higginson Holmes Howells independent element independent proposition indirect infinitive phrase introduced Introductory Word Irving J. F. Clarke James ject jective King Kipling Lewis Carroll living Longfellow Lord Lowell Macaulay meaning mind Motley nature never noun clause omitted participial phrase participle passive form passive verb person predicate adjective prepositional phrase Prescott principal proposition Quincey reader Register of Deeds relation relative pronoun Ruskin SENTENCE MODIFIERS sentences containing sometimes Stevenson subjective complement subordinating conjunction substantive supply tell tence Thackeray thing thought tion transitive verb usually Webster
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الصفحة 213 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
الصفحة 85 - If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
الصفحة 239 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, — A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
الصفحة 238 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains...
الصفحة 10 - Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle personages of the village...
الصفحة 232 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.
الصفحة 27 - Thou say'st, thou art not Rustum; be it so! Who art thou then, that canst so touch my soul ? Boy as I am, I have seen battles too — Have waded foremost in their bloody waves, And heard their hollow roar of dying men; But never was my heart thus touch'd before.
الصفحة 86 - And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.
الصفحة 208 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
الصفحة 231 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.