Essentials of English: A Textbook for SchoolsPacific Press, 1915 - 337 pages |
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Page 33
... way of distinction . Articles always limit nouns . A or AN.— A and an are weakened forms of the numeral adjective one . They always imply oneness , but in a sense more vague and indefinite than does APPLIED GRAMMAR 33.
... way of distinction . Articles always limit nouns . A or AN.— A and an are weakened forms of the numeral adjective one . They always imply oneness , but in a sense more vague and indefinite than does APPLIED GRAMMAR 33.
Page 34
A Textbook for Schools George W. Rine. but in a sense more vague and indefinite than does the adjective one . The choice between a and an is determined by sound . Before a word beginning with a consonant sound , a is used ; before a word ...
A Textbook for Schools George W. Rine. but in a sense more vague and indefinite than does the adjective one . The choice between a and an is determined by sound . Before a word beginning with a consonant sound , a is used ; before a word ...
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... sense , and takes a plural verb . Examples : The senate has adjourned . The jury are divided in their judgment . NOTE . In the application of this principle much depends on the writer's own judgment . Mr. Froude wrote , “ A num- ber of ...
... sense , and takes a plural verb . Examples : The senate has adjourned . The jury are divided in their judgment . NOTE . In the application of this principle much depends on the writer's own judgment . Mr. Froude wrote , “ A num- ber of ...
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... sense , the verb should be singular ; when the subject , though singu- lar in form , is plural in sense , the verb should be plural ; as : ' Gulliver's Travels ' was written by Swift . Five hundred dollars is a large sum . Half of them ...
... sense , the verb should be singular ; when the subject , though singu- lar in form , is plural in sense , the verb should be plural ; as : ' Gulliver's Travels ' was written by Swift . Five hundred dollars is a large sum . Half of them ...
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... sense , the past tense of shall and will respectively . When used in this way they are practically gov- erned by the same rules as shall and will . Both should and would , however , sometimes perform other duties . Should may be used ...
... sense , the past tense of shall and will respectively . When used in this way they are practically gov- erned by the same rules as shall and will . Both should and would , however , sometimes perform other duties . Should may be used ...
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Page 176 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work, that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 177 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 182 - I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon : his branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Page 311 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Page 188 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; " While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings, as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 187 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 217 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, , — the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 223 - Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
Page 323 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone.
Page 143 - STAND ! The ground's your own, my braves ! Will ye give it up to slaves ? Will ye look for greener graves ? Hope ye mercy still ? What's the mercy despots feel ? Hear it in that battle peal ! Read it on yon bristling steel ! Ask it — ye who will.