Companion to English Grammar ...1862 |
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... called a ' clause ' or ' member ' of the compound sentence . A COMPLEX sentence contains one principal assertion , accompanied by one or more explanatory or secondary sen- tences , dependent upon , and qualifying the principal sen ...
... called a ' clause ' or ' member ' of the compound sentence . A COMPLEX sentence contains one principal assertion , accompanied by one or more explanatory or secondary sen- tences , dependent upon , and qualifying the principal sen ...
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... called ' Principal sentences , ' and are said to be co - ordinate ' to each other . The sentence Eternity is long ' is co - ordinate to ' Life is short ; ' and the sentence The prices fell ' is co - ordinate to The " prices rose . ' 6 ...
... called ' Principal sentences , ' and are said to be co - ordinate ' to each other . The sentence Eternity is long ' is co - ordinate to ' Life is short ; ' and the sentence The prices fell ' is co - ordinate to The " prices rose . ' 6 ...
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... called the principal sentence . ' The latter clause , ' Which my father bought for me , ' depends upon , and describes the other , and is said to be subordinate ' to it . All sentences dependent upon others are called ' subordinate ...
... called the principal sentence . ' The latter clause , ' Which my father bought for me , ' depends upon , and describes the other , and is said to be subordinate ' to it . All sentences dependent upon others are called ' subordinate ...
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... called the ' Completion ' of the sentence . Subjects . Birds Cats John EXAMPLES . Predicates . build kill struck Completions . nests . mice . James . Besides these three parts , a simple sentence may be fur- ther extended by the ...
... called the ' Completion ' of the sentence . Subjects . Birds Cats John EXAMPLES . Predicates . build kill struck Completions . nests . mice . James . Besides these three parts , a simple sentence may be fur- ther extended by the ...
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... called the Enlarged Predicate . ' The subject , verb , and object are called the ' principal ' parts of a sentence , and the words which are added to either of these parts are called its complements ' or ' adjuncts . ' 6 DIFFERENT KINDS ...
... called the Enlarged Predicate . ' The subject , verb , and object are called the ' principal ' parts of a sentence , and the words which are added to either of these parts are called its complements ' or ' adjuncts . ' 6 DIFFERENT KINDS ...
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1st clause 2nd clause 4th clause adjective relating adjective sentence adverb adverbial sentence agreeing Analysis Anastrophe anteced antecedent Apocope apposition co-ord comma common noun complete compound sentence conjunction contains contracted demonstrative adjective Enallage English Grammars EXAMPLE EXERCISES FOR PUPILS expressing relation figures finite verb following sentences give governed happiness hath heaven honour Hyperbaton imperative mood indicative mood infin infinitive mood intrans jective king letter live meaning mind modifying neuter gender never nominative noun or pronoun objective paraphrase Parse the words PARSING passage Passive past participle past tense Periphrasis phrase poetry predicate prep preposition principal clauses Principal sentence prose qualifying relative pronoun Remark RULE sense sentence to 1st sentence to 2nd sentence to 4th simple sentence sing singular number style substantive sentence TATE'S Tell tence thee things third person thou tive trans transitive verb verbal combination virtue writing
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Page 150 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 109 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 110 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost — the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
Page 113 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Page 71 - 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 70 - The Mother of Mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory...
Page 99 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors' by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 71 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 64 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 21 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.