New Language Lessons: An Elementary Grammar and CompositionHarper & Brothers, 1880 - 192 pages |
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... denoting some sudden feeling is called an interjection . This literally signifies a word merely thrown in among the other words in a sentence . DEFINITION . - An interjection is a word which expresses an emo- tion . EXERCISE 8 . In the ...
... denoting some sudden feeling is called an interjection . This literally signifies a word merely thrown in among the other words in a sentence . DEFINITION . - An interjection is a word which expresses an emo- tion . EXERCISE 8 . In the ...
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... denoting the same person or thing as another noun is placed beside it to explain its meaning , the explanatory noun is said to be in apposition with the word which it explains . DEFINITION . - A noun in apposition is a noun joined to ...
... denoting the same person or thing as another noun is placed beside it to explain its meaning , the explanatory noun is said to be in apposition with the word which it explains . DEFINITION . - A noun in apposition is a noun joined to ...
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... denoting every individual of the cat - kind ; “ ani- mal " is a name applied to all living creatures . Examples . - 1 . The bud shoots forth . 2. The oak is one of the largest trees in the forest . 3. Ships spread their sails . 4. Cows ...
... denoting every individual of the cat - kind ; “ ani- mal " is a name applied to all living creatures . Examples . - 1 . The bud shoots forth . 2. The oak is one of the largest trees in the forest . 3. Ships spread their sails . 4. Cows ...
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... denoting the speaker . We ........ denoting the speaker along with others . You ....... denoting one or more persons spoken to . He She . denoting the person or thing spoken of . It They ..... denoting the persons or things spoken of ...
... denoting the speaker . We ........ denoting the speaker along with others . You ....... denoting one or more persons spoken to . He She . denoting the person or thing spoken of . It They ..... denoting the persons or things spoken of ...
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... denoting- Color . brown . Kind . sweet . e . Size . large . Rewrite the sentences , and change the meaning by putting in other adjectives . MODEL : " A little red cross dog attacked a gay young prancing horse . " 1. A large black fierce ...
... denoting- Color . brown . Kind . sweet . e . Size . large . Rewrite the sentences , and change the meaning by putting in other adjectives . MODEL : " A little red cross dog attacked a gay young prancing horse . " 1. A large black fierce ...
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Page 82 - While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And streamed above the gallant child, Like banners in the sky. There came a burst of thunder sound — The boy — oh ! where was he ? Ask of the winds that far around With fragments strewed the sea ! — With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing which...
Page 20 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters; and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth. This put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with. vexation, and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
Page 100 - I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Page 64 - O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I' try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere. They almost devour me with kisses, Their arms about me entwine, Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine! Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you all!
Page 158 - 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 84 - And will you, my man," said he, patting me on the head, "get me a little hot water?" How could I refuse? I ran, and soon brought a kettleful. " How old are you ? and what's your name ? " continued he, without waiting for a reply.
Page 119 - The Reaper said, and smiled ; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 39 - The sun rose high, and sank, and the battle still raged. Through all the wild October day, the clash and din resounded in the air. In the red sunset, and in the white moonlight, heaps upon heaps of dead men lay strewn, a dreadful spectacle, all over the ground.
Page 185 - I have been, 1. We have been, 2. Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been; 3. They have been.
Page 189 - Part. eat ate eaten fall fell fallen feed fed fed feel felt felt fight fought fought find found found flee fled fled fling flung flung fly flew flown...