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... attention , notwithstanding you heed them not . Though accused , yet I am not condemned ; and if I should be condemned , yet still I am not guilty . EXERCISE . Analyze each of the foregoing compound sentences . State , 1. the ...
... attention , notwithstanding you heed them not . Though accused , yet I am not condemned ; and if I should be condemned , yet still I am not guilty . EXERCISE . Analyze each of the foregoing compound sentences . State , 1. the ...
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... Attention may correct some errors . I saw my friend . You must finish your task . They can not serve us . He supports his mother . Adversity improves most people . You have often advised us . I have transgressed no 26 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... Attention may correct some errors . I saw my friend . You must finish your task . They can not serve us . He supports his mother . Adversity improves most people . You have often advised us . I have transgressed no 26 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... attention is al- ready directed to us , we seldom speak his name ; but when we wish to get his attention , we speak his name , and leave it without any connection with what we have to say ; hence , nouns used in a call to attention are ...
... attention is al- ready directed to us , we seldom speak his name ; but when we wish to get his attention , we speak his name , and leave it without any connection with what we have to say ; hence , nouns used in a call to attention are ...
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... attention . Must I thus leave thee , Paradise ? Surely , my friends , you are in jest . DEFINITION 4. - The third person denotes the person or thing spoken of . EXAMPLES . The books are here . The girls laugh . The lambs play . The dog ...
... attention . Must I thus leave thee , Paradise ? Surely , my friends , you are in jest . DEFINITION 4. - The third person denotes the person or thing spoken of . EXAMPLES . The books are here . The girls laugh . The lambs play . The dog ...
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... attention will en able the scholar to distinguish the intransitive verb , or verb of the passive voice , followed by an explanatory substantive , from the verb of the active voice , followed by its recipient . The rule already given for ...
... attention will en able the scholar to distinguish the intransitive verb , or verb of the passive voice , followed by an explanatory substantive , from the verb of the active voice , followed by its recipient . The rule already given for ...
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1st Person 66 Thou active voice adverb Analyze each sentence annexing auxiliary called comma compound sentence conjunctive pronoun connected construction correlative DEFINITION 2.-A denoting dependence ellipsis EXERCISES explanatory substantive expressed favor fourth root friends FUTURE PERFECT TENSE Hence Hold the organs imperative mode implying indicative mode infinitive mode interrogative intransitive post kind labor language letter loved mind nominative noun or pronoun objective organs are articulated orthoepy Parse participial mode passive voice past perfect PAST PERFECT TENSE PAST TENSE performing the office person and number person singular personal verb pleonasm Plural position possessive potential mode preceded prefixing PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE principles proposition punctuation reading recipient REGULAR VERB REMARK 1.-The REMARK.-The rendered scholar second root separated sound represented subject and predicate subjunctive substantive modifier substantive phrase syllables third person third root tion tive transitive verb truth usually vowel words writing WRITTEN AND ORAL.-Write
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Page 177 - Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43 But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.
Page 240 - Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed...
Page 262 - And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Page 260 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial ? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel ï and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
Page 262 - Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make a covenant with thee? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Page 267 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 270 - There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
Page 321 - The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them ; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour GOD and man, and go to be promoted over the trees ? And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page 321 - But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees ? Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page 321 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow ; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.