Advanced Grammar and Composition, Book 2American Book Company, 1899 - 368 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 38
Page 11
... refer to a particular kind of sky . Arching is said to modify sky . 26. To modify a word is to change its application or add to its meaning . 27. A modifier is a word or a group of words joined to a word to change its application or add ...
... refer to a particular kind of sky . Arching is said to modify sky . 26. To modify a word is to change its application or add to its meaning . 27. A modifier is a word or a group of words joined to a word to change its application or add ...
Page 43
... refer to the noun James . ( Why ? 860. ) It may be seen that Nouns and pronouns may be the complements of verbals , and modify the nouns and pronouns to which they refer by representing the same person or thing . When thus 43.
... refer to the noun James . ( Why ? 860. ) It may be seen that Nouns and pronouns may be the complements of verbals , and modify the nouns and pronouns to which they refer by representing the same person or thing . When thus 43.
Page 56
... refer . Adjectives thus used may conveniently be called subjective predicate adjectives . EXERCISE 197. Explain the use of the words in italics : 1. Do you desire to become wise ? 2. He was accused of being ignorant . 3. Try to be brave ...
... refer . Adjectives thus used may conveniently be called subjective predicate adjectives . EXERCISE 197. Explain the use of the words in italics : 1. Do you desire to become wise ? 2. He was accused of being ignorant . 3. Try to be brave ...
Page 99
... refer to a dictionary whenever the meaning of a word is not fully understood . In an unabridged dictionary may be found ( 1 ) the spelling of a word ; ( 2 ) its pronunciation ; ( 3 ) the part of speech to which it belongs ; ( 4 ) its ...
... refer to a dictionary whenever the meaning of a word is not fully understood . In an unabridged dictionary may be found ( 1 ) the spelling of a word ; ( 2 ) its pronunciation ; ( 3 ) the part of speech to which it belongs ; ( 4 ) its ...
Page 100
... referred to . " What is incorrect in the following sentences ? " If any one needs assistance , they may report at the office . " " I never saw such a man as him . " " It lost its eye . " " That's not him . " One of the commonest errors ...
... referred to . " What is incorrect in the following sentences ? " If any one needs assistance , they may report at the office . " " I never saw such a man as him . " " It lost its eye . " " That's not him . " One of the commonest errors ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abridged clause active voice adverb Analyze the following apposition boys brave called clause modifies common noun complement composition compound sentence conj conjunctive pronoun coördinate conjunction Correct the following denoting derived direct object English EXERCISE express finite verb following errors following sentences foregoing form to agree frequently gender gone grammar imperative mood indicative mood interjections interrogative intransitive irregular James join letter LYTE'S ADV MOOD Present Tense nominative non-finite verb noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns ORAL ANALYSIS ORAL PARSING paragraph passive voice Past Ind past tense perfect participle person and number person or thing phrase plural number possessive potential mood preposition present perfect tense principal pron proper nouns Read the following refer seen Shak singular number sometimes Special Rule speech studied his lesson subjunctive mood subordinate conjunctive suffix tence thee thou thought tive transitive verb verbal wise Write WRITTEN PARSING
Popular passages
Page 328 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 21 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Page 328 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 335 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of Angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 330 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 13 - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 299 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 329 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 329 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad.' ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in, stones, and good in every thing.
Page 15 - The New South is enamored of her new work. Her soul is stirred with the breath of a new life. The light of a grander day is falling fair on her face. She is thrilling with the consciousness of growing power and prosperity.