The Elements of Language and Grammar: A Practical Course for Use in Intermediate, Ungraded, and Grammar Schools : Based Upon Welsh's "First Lessons in English"Silver, Burdett, 1894 - 224 Seiten |
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ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE & GRAMMAR Alfred Hix 1850-1889 Welsh,James M. (James Mickleborough Greenwood Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action apple asked attribute complement beautiful bird called Change clause commas compound sentence conjunctive adverbs connect denote dependent clause Diagram the following donkey Edward Holden elements exclamatory express father Fill the blanks flowers following sentences formed by prefixing Future Perfect Tense gender girl Give helping words horse infinitive intransitive italicized kind lady lesson loved or thou Margie mark Mary meaning mode naked predicate naked subject noun or pronoun Nouns ending object complement PARSING past participle Past Perfect past tense person or thing personal pronouns plural possessive predicate adjective prepositional phrase pupil QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW relative pronouns river sentences containing sing singular number skate speaking speech Sueves superlative SYNOPSIS FOR REVIEW tell tence third person thou as subject tive transitive verb tree verb phrase verbals walked wind word joins Write sentences yesterday
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 126 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Seite 197 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, •An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Seite 105 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Seite 51 - A phrase is a group of related words that does not contain a subject...
Seite 168 - T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor, — a matter of coins, coats, and carpets, a little more or less stone, or wood, or paint, the fashion of a cloak or hat ; like the luck of...
Seite 124 - To express simple futurity, use shall in the first person and will in the second and third persons...
Seite 167 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Seite 62 - January April July October February May August November March June September December Every month in the universal calendar has 26 working days.
Seite 202 - LITTLE I ask ; my wants are few ; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That I may call my own ; — And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for me ; Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice ; — My choice would be vanilla-ice.
Seite 103 - An adjective derived from a proper noun is called a proper adjective ; .as, American, German, Roman, etc.