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... constructions ; and each successive lesson introduces a new principle , bringing in , also , in connection with it ... construction , and punctuation , required for the completion of these exercises , are designed to be introduced in ...
... constructions ; and each successive lesson introduces a new principle , bringing in , also , in connection with it ... construction , and punctuation , required for the completion of these exercises , are designed to be introduced in ...
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... construction , but not the only one , as the following examples will illustrate : Their parents are affectionate . Our friends are kind . His form was fair . Virtue stands unharmed . They have become unhappy . They are comfortable ...
... construction , but not the only one , as the following examples will illustrate : Their parents are affectionate . Our friends are kind . His form was fair . Virtue stands unharmed . They have become unhappy . They are comfortable ...
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... construction of simple sentences : RULE 1. - An adjective , separated from the substantive which it modifies , unless that separation is effected by an intervening verb , or by an intervening adjective , should , with its modifiers , be ...
... construction of simple sentences : RULE 1. - An adjective , separated from the substantive which it modifies , unless that separation is effected by an intervening verb , or by an intervening adjective , should , with its modifiers , be ...
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... construction of impera- tive propositions , based upon a principle to which we shall have frequent occasion to refer . The principle is , that any word or words may be omitted , when the meaning will not be impaired or obscured by such ...
... construction of impera- tive propositions , based upon a principle to which we shall have frequent occasion to refer . The principle is , that any word or words may be omitted , when the meaning will not be impaired or obscured by such ...
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... construction . REMARK 2 - These two forms will , for the sake of brevity merely , be called the personal and impersonal verb . EXAMPLES . I wish to get my books . I wish you to get my books . I wish him to get my books . In each of ...
... construction . REMARK 2 - These two forms will , for the sake of brevity merely , be called the personal and impersonal verb . EXAMPLES . I wish to get my books . I wish you to get my books . I wish him to get my books . In each of ...
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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.