The Practical English Grammar, EtcLongman, 1864 - 292 pages |
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... Relative Pronouns Adjective Pronouns Distributive Pronouns 49 ... ... 52 ... 53 ... ... VERBS Moods Participles Tenses 55 ... 60 62 66 ... Numbers and Persons Conjugation 6 Conjugation of To Have ' 6 Conjugation of To Be ' 68 ... ... 70 ...
... Relative Pronouns Adjective Pronouns Distributive Pronouns 49 ... ... 52 ... 53 ... ... VERBS Moods Participles Tenses 55 ... 60 62 66 ... Numbers and Persons Conjugation 6 Conjugation of To Have ' 6 Conjugation of To Be ' 68 ... ... 70 ...
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... relative positions . Similarly the preposition " through , " connects the verb " walked , " with the noun " fields , " and shows the relation between them . One great use of prepositions in English , is to express those re- lations ...
... relative positions . Similarly the preposition " through , " connects the verb " walked , " with the noun " fields , " and shows the relation between them . One great use of prepositions in English , is to express those re- lations ...
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... Relative , and Adjective Pronouns . SECTION I - PERSONAL PRONOUNS . 75. A Personal Pronoun denotes the grammat- ical distinction of person , and acts as a substitute for the Noun . Obs . Personal Pronouns are the only real pronouns ...
... Relative , and Adjective Pronouns . SECTION I - PERSONAL PRONOUNS . 75. A Personal Pronoun denotes the grammat- ical distinction of person , and acts as a substitute for the Noun . Obs . Personal Pronouns are the only real pronouns ...
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... RELATIVE PRONOUNS . 80. A Relative Pronoun relates to some word or phrase going before , which is called the antecedent ; as , " The man , who is honest , is happy . " The Obs . Here the relative who refers to the antecedent man ...
... RELATIVE PRONOUNS . 80. A Relative Pronoun relates to some word or phrase going before , which is called the antecedent ; as , " The man , who is honest , is happy . " The Obs . Here the relative who refers to the antecedent man ...
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... relative , is used to prevent the too frequent repetition of who or which , and it may be applied to both persons and things . " Obs . The relative that may always be distinguished from the conjunction that , and from the demonstrative ...
... relative , is used to prevent the too frequent repetition of who or which , and it may be applied to both persons and things . " Obs . The relative that may always be distinguished from the conjunction that , and from the demonstrative ...
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accent action adjective adverb Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon language antecedent apostrophe assertion auxiliaries born called comma complete participle complex sentence compound sentence conjunction connected copula denotes derived died Emphatic Form England English Grammar English language example EXERCISE expressed or understood Feminine finite verb French frequently Future Tense Future-Perfect gender govern Greek happy hast horse IMPERATIVE MOOD implies INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD inflections interrogative intransitive John king Latin letter Lord Masculine means modifies nominative noun or pronoun object Obs.-The omitted originally passive voice past tense person or thing phrase Plural poet poetry Poor Law Board possessive POTENTIAL MOOD preceded predicate prefixed preposition Present Tense Present-Perfect Tense principal clause principal verb Refer to Rules reign relative Saxon semicolon sense signifies simple sentence sometimes Subjunctive Mood syllable term Thou shalt tion tive transitive verb verse virtue vowel words write written wrote
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Page 199 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 211 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 225 - Tis much he dares; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety.
Page 210 - 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...
Page 198 - 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 211 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 253 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 48 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 252 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.