New Language Lessons: An Elementary Grammar and CompositionHarper & Brothers, 1886 - 192 Seiten |
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according to Rule adjective phrase adverb adverbial phrase Analysis auxiliary beautiful birds brother Cæsar called clause Columbus comma common noun complete complex sentence compound sentence conjunction connected Dear DEFINITION DEFINITION.-A denote Examples.-1 EXERCISE express following sentences parse Future Perfect Tense gender girl grammar horse indicative mood interrogative intransitive lady lesson limiting adjective live meaning Model for Parsing nest noun in apposition noun or pronoun object passive voice past participle Past Tense peas Perfect Tense personal pronoun plural number possessive form POTENTIAL MOOD predicate adjective predicate verb preposition principal statement proper noun regular verb relative pronoun sailed seen sentence containing sentence introducing sheep simple predicate simple sentence simple subject sing singular number soldiers SPECIAL RULE squirrel SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD superlative sweet tall tell third person thou tive transitive verb tree word Write a sentence Write a simple wrote yesterday
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Seite 84 - A MAN of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds...
Seite 18 - 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.
Seite 92 - 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...
Seite 56 - 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!
Seite 148 - 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.
Seite 76 - 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.
Seite 109 - 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.
Seite 33 - 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.
Seite 74 - 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 that perished there, Was that young faithful heart.
Seite 19 - Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death...