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active voice adjective clause adjunct of predicate adverbial adjunct adverbial clause adverbial relation Analysis Anglo-Saxon antecedent attributive adjunct attributive relation brother called clause qualifying co-ordinate comma complement compound copula dative degree denote dependent clauses derived diphthongs elliptical expressed feminine following sentences Future Perfect Tense gender German gerund grammar grammarians Greek horse Imperative Mood Imperfect incomplete predication indicative mood infinitive mood Interrogative Pronoun John language Latin letter masculine means mode neuter nominative notion number and person old English origin passive voice Past Indefinite Tense Past Perfect Perfect of continued Perfect Participle Perfect Tense phrase plural number possessive predicative relation prefix preposition Present Indefinite Tense principle refers relative adverb relative pronoun sense simple singular number smiting smitten speak spoken stands stantive subjunctive mood subordinate clause substantive clause suffix superlative syllable thing Thou tion tive transitive verb Verb of incomplete vowel sound writing
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Página 174 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
Página 135 - 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...
Página 127 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Página 132 - And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven ; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him ? 32.
Página 136 - He staid not for brake, and he stopp'd not for stone, He swam the Esk river where ford there was none; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Página 55 - Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I shall have been, 1. We shall have been, 2. Thou wilt have been, 2.
Página 148 - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings And the night-raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low-browed rocks As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Página 131 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Página 173 - ... the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, This is the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Página 55 - Perfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been, 1. We have been, 2. Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been ; 3. They have been. Pluperfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I had been, 1.