A Practical Grammar: In which Words, Phrases, and Sentences are Classified According to Their Offices, and Their Various Relations to One Another, Illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams |
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Adjective Pronouns ADJUNCT ELEMENTS Adjunct Word Adverb Adverbial Phrase ANALYSIS Antecedent assert Auxiliary Sentence Auxiliary Verbs called commonly Complex Sentence Compound Conjunction construction denote describe Diagram distinguished earth EXAMPLES EXAMPLES.-1 Exclamation EXERCISES expressed Future Tense Gender Grammar heart Hence illustrate Obs Independent Phrase Indicative Mode Infinitive Phrase Interrogative Intransitive Irregular Verb John King of Shadows language Let the Pupil limited Logical Adjuncts modify Nominative NOTE Nouns and Pronouns o'er Object parsed Passive Past Participle Person and Number placed position Possessive Possessive Adjective POTENTIAL MODE Predicate Prefixes Prep Preposition PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS Principal Sentence PRIOR PAST TENSE PRIOR PRESENT TENSE Pron qualifies reciting Relative Pronoun RULE Scaling yonder peak seen SENTENCE-PRINCIPAL ELEMENT Sentences to illustrate signification Singular Number sometimes Specifying Adjectives SUBJUNCTIVE Substantive tell tence thee things Third Person Thou art Thou wilt Transitive Verbs Verbal Adjective Word of Euphony
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Page 76 - 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. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 230 - Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: " wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey...
Page 108 - ... the object of the preposition by. 465. In turning a sentence from the Active Voice to the Passive, the Object of the active verb becomes the Subject of the passive.
Page 276 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 155 - Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When...
Page 16 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Page 279 - The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh, night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet, lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
Page 60 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled, The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.
Page 233 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Page 104 - In music ; thou art in the cooler breath That from the inmost darkness of the place Comes, scarcely felt ; the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh moist...