Longman's Briefer GrammarLongmans, Green and Company, 1908 - 168 páginas |
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... or an interrogative sentence may be ex- clamatory ; as , " Hurry ! " " Are you crazy ! " But it is better to call such sentences simply imperative , or interrogative . 5. How I could hug you for that ! 6. KINDS OF SENTENCES 29.
... or an interrogative sentence may be ex- clamatory ; as , " Hurry ! " " Are you crazy ! " But it is better to call such sentences simply imperative , or interrogative . 5. How I could hug you for that ! 6. KINDS OF SENTENCES 29.
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... better to say : ― " Edward bought a book ; he gave it to his sister ; when he gave it to her , she thanked him . " Instead of saying Ellen has lost Ellen's hat . Ed wanted the horse , but the horse was not in the horse's stable . Thomas ...
... better to say : ― " Edward bought a book ; he gave it to his sister ; when he gave it to her , she thanked him . " Instead of saying Ellen has lost Ellen's hat . Ed wanted the horse , but the horse was not in the horse's stable . Thomas ...
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... 15. 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 . 80. An Adjective may belong to a Pronoun , since 46 LONGMANS ' BRIEFER GRAMMAR 5.
... 15. 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 . 80. An Adjective may belong to a Pronoun , since 46 LONGMANS ' BRIEFER GRAMMAR 5.
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... Better . Lame . Smart . Steep . Clear . Hollow . Humble . Left . Level . Lower . Light . Loose . Fast . Open . Slow . Sober . Sound . Sour . Steady . 99 82. When we say " Henry is tall , " the word tall describes Henry ; and when we ...
... Better . Lame . Smart . Steep . Clear . Hollow . Humble . Left . Level . Lower . Light . Loose . Fast . Open . Slow . Sober . Sound . Sour . Steady . 99 82. When we say " Henry is tall , " the word tall describes Henry ; and when we ...
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... better best bad , ill , or evil worse worst little less , 1 lesser least many , or several more most much , or some late Slater latest latter last far S farther farthest further furthest 94. The meaning of some Adjectives is such that ...
... better best bad , ill , or evil worse worst little less , 1 lesser least many , or several more most much , or some late Slater latest latter last far S farther farthest further furthest 94. The meaning of some Adjectives is such that ...
Términos y frases comunes
adjective adjunct Adverbial Phrases Adverbs analysis Analyze Antecedent apple Attribute Auxiliary Verbs baby birds bought Brearley School broken brother called child Common Nouns COMPOUND SENTENCES Conjunctions consonant Copulative Verb diagraming sentences Edited Exercise father following sentences pick Fred Gender girl Give grammar horse Hotchkiss School hurt Indirect Object Infinitive Intransitive Jack John knife lady Learn lost loves Mary Masculine modified mother names of actions Nominative Nominative Absolute Notes for Teachers Noun or Pronoun Parse Participles person or thing play Plural Number Possessive Predicate Preposition printed in italics Professor of English Professor of Rhetoric rain Read again paragraph Relative Pronoun School sentences containing SIMPLE SENTENCES sing Singular Number sister speaking statement Subject Noun syllable tall tell tences thee thief thou to-day Transitive Verb tree uncle Verbs to show vowel walk William window writing
Pasajes populares
Página 39 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Página 152 - 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.
Página 93 - SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Página 10 - The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an Eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist; A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Página 92 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Página 154 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Página 153 - The sun now rose upon the right Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea. And the good south wind still blew behind, But no sweet bird did follow. Nor any day, for food or play, Came to the mariners
Página 159 - Begin with capitals the names of the days of the week and the months of the year.
Página 93 - Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of, Border chivalry; For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest.