A System of English GrammarOliver & Boyd, 1845 - 168 من الصفحات |
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... explanation as possible of the principles which regulate the structure of the English tongue , rather than make out a large number of mere rules ; 2d , I have illustrated the principles by extracts from the best authors , showing that ...
... explanation as possible of the principles which regulate the structure of the English tongue , rather than make out a large number of mere rules ; 2d , I have illustrated the principles by extracts from the best authors , showing that ...
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... explained . As examples may be given , truth , wisdom , length , goodness , probity . Abstract nouns should be carefully distinguished from common names generalized . These are such as man , river , horse , mountain . That there is a ...
... explained . As examples may be given , truth , wisdom , length , goodness , probity . Abstract nouns should be carefully distinguished from common names generalized . These are such as man , river , horse , mountain . That there is a ...
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... explained on the same principle . Sometimes the two words coalesce and become clearly one , as school , master , schoolmaster ; sometimes they are united by a hyphen , as book , learning , book - learning ; but very often they are ...
... explained on the same principle . Sometimes the two words coalesce and become clearly one , as school , master , schoolmaster ; sometimes they are united by a hyphen , as book , learning , book - learning ; but very often they are ...
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... Explain the origin and use of pronominal adjectives . What are demonstrative adjectives ? 2. Distinguish between abstract nouns and adjectives attributive or numeral , in the following sentences : -I saw a black man with a flat nose and ...
... Explain the origin and use of pronominal adjectives . What are demonstrative adjectives ? 2. Distinguish between abstract nouns and adjectives attributive or numeral , in the following sentences : -I saw a black man with a flat nose and ...
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... explained : -If we wish to modify the noun or subject of a sentence , we must use an adjective ; but if the predicate is to be modified , or any additional modifica- tion to be put on a word already qualifying it , the word then used ...
... explained : -If we wish to modify the noun or subject of a sentence , we must use an adjective ; but if the predicate is to be modified , or any additional modifica- tion to be put on a word already qualifying it , the word then used ...
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abstract nouns Adam Smith adverb affirmed AFFIXES Alison Alnascar ascer assertion belong Cæsar called class of words clause common comparative comparison conjunction connected connexion considered copula correct dative Defective Verbs definition denoting derived distinction English language error etymology examples EXERCISE expressed feminine Future Perfect Tense gender give grammar grammarians Greek Hallam idea indicates Infinitive inflection interjections irregular James reads John king Latham Latin marks masculine meaning Milton mind moods nature neuter nominative nouns substantive Numeral Adjectives object observed original parsing passive voice PAST TENSE Perfect Participle plural possessive POTENTIAL MOOD predicate prefix preposition PRESENT TENSE principle pupil qualifying the noun refer relative pronoun remark represent respect rules of syntax sense sentence Shakspeare signification singular sometimes sort sound speak speech spoken superlative thing Thou thought tion transitive verb truth verb violated vowel Wordsworth write
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الصفحة 94 - Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in His presence, ever to observe His providence, and on Him sole depend...
الصفحة 83 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, heaven bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
الصفحة 84 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
الصفحة 149 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
الصفحة 98 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
الصفحة 166 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms...
الصفحة 165 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
الصفحة 167 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
الصفحة 168 - Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy, Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy ; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair, Sorrow and death may not enter there ; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom ; For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there ; it is there, my child.
الصفحة 165 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy.