A Text-book of Applied English GrammarMacmillan, 1902 - 363 pages |
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... idea of getting would be taken for granted . 59. The use of got is far less frequent in good conversational usage than it is in vulgar usage . But even the best speakers do not hesitate to use have got at times to make their meaning ...
... idea of getting would be taken for granted . 59. The use of got is far less frequent in good conversational usage than it is in vulgar usage . But even the best speakers do not hesitate to use have got at times to make their meaning ...
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... idea , but not making a statement . Once more , a word may almost make a state- ment and yet just miss it . We say that a verb states or asserts ( 13 ) ; yet in strictness there is no STATEMENT until a subject is placed with the verb ...
... idea , but not making a statement . Once more , a word may almost make a state- ment and yet just miss it . We say that a verb states or asserts ( 13 ) ; yet in strictness there is no STATEMENT until a subject is placed with the verb ...
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... ideas ex- pressed in words . They can easily be made into statements , however , as : " This book is mine . The thickness of it is about an inch , " etc.1 250 . When the relation between a pair of ideas is fully stated in words , so ...
... ideas ex- pressed in words . They can easily be made into statements , however , as : " This book is mine . The thickness of it is about an inch , " etc.1 250 . When the relation between a pair of ideas is fully stated in words , so ...
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... idea you . Some- times this you is expressed , as in " Don't you stir till I come ! " More often it is merely implied , the word you not occurring to the speaker's mind at all . Thus we have , " Don't stir till I come . " 259. ORAL ...
... idea you . Some- times this you is expressed , as in " Don't you stir till I come ! " More often it is merely implied , the word you not occurring to the speaker's mind at all . Thus we have , " Don't stir till I come . " 259. ORAL ...
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... idea fish . 263. Suppose now we say , " It is too bad that father must go away so soon . " Here the formal subject is it , but the real subject is " that father should go away so soon . " The sentence could be written , " That father ...
... idea fish . 263. Suppose now we say , " It is too bad that father must go away so soon . " Here the formal subject is it , but the real subject is " that father should go away so soon . " The sentence could be written , " That father ...
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Page 278 - The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Page 131 - Heads, heads — take care of your heads!' cried the loquacious stranger, as they came out under the low archway, which in those days formed the entrance to the coach-yard. 'Terrible place — dangerous work — other day — five children — mother — tall lady, eating sandwiches — forgot the arch — crash — knock — children look round — mother's head off — sandwich in her hand — no mouth to put it in — head of a family off — shocking, shocking! Looking at Whitehall, sir? —...
Page 273 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured,
Page 280 - That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
Page 156 - Spend not where you may save. Spare not where you must spend. 14. The fool's coat may be fine. It is only a fool's coat. 15. Foppishness is vulgar. Neatness never made a fop. 16. Fine clothes never won a position. Clean nails have made a man rich. 17. Labor makes dirty hands. Hands honestly dirty make clean money. 18. 'Tis a wicked world. We make a part of it.
Page 279 - I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Page 237 - And so beside the Silent Sea, I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 279 - 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 98 - ... been with all the rest. As soon as I put a man in command of the army, he'd come to me with a plan of campaign and about as much as say, "Now, I don't believe I can do it, but if you say so, I'll try it on," and so put the responsibility of success or failure on me.