New Grammar of the English TongueBlackwood, 1887 - 252 páginas |
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... Tense , Number , and Person . These changes are expressed , partly by inflexion , and partly by the use of auxiliary verbs . ( i ) A verb is an auxiliary verb ( from Lat . auxilium , aid ) when its own full and real meaning drops out of ...
... Tense , Number , and Person . These changes are expressed , partly by inflexion , and partly by the use of auxiliary verbs . ( i ) A verb is an auxiliary verb ( from Lat . auxilium , aid ) when its own full and real meaning drops out of ...
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... tenses by means of the " " He is gone . " verb to be and their past participle , as But the meaning here is quite different . done to the subject of the verb . 66 I am come ; " There is no mark of anything ( ii ) Shakespeare has the ...
... tenses by means of the " " He is gone . " verb to be and their past participle , as But the meaning here is quite different . done to the subject of the verb . 66 I am come ; " There is no mark of anything ( ii ) Shakespeare has the ...
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... TENSE . 19. Tense is the form which the verb takes to indicate time . There are , in human life , three times : past , present , and future . Hence there are in a verb three chief tenses : Past , Present , and Future . These may be ...
... TENSE . 19. Tense is the form which the verb takes to indicate time . There are , in human life , three times : past , present , and future . Hence there are in a verb three chief tenses : Past , Present , and Future . These may be ...
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... tense in our language that is formed by inflexion is the past indefinite . All the others are formed by the aid of auxiliaries . ( a ) The imperfect tenses are formed by be the imperfect participle . ( b ) The perfect tenses are formed ...
... tense in our language that is formed by inflexion is the past indefinite . All the others are formed by the aid of auxiliaries . ( a ) The imperfect tenses are formed by be the imperfect participle . ( b ) The perfect tenses are formed ...
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... tenses . 25. The past tense of any verb determines to which of these classes it belongs ; and that by a twofold test - one positive and one negative . 26. ( i ) The positive test for the past of a Strong Verb is that it changes the ...
... tenses . 25. The past tense of any verb determines to which of these classes it belongs ; and that by a twofold test - one positive and one negative . 26. ( i ) The positive test for the past of a Strong Verb is that it changes the ...
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Página 242 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 163 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 208 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 236 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 165 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Página 238 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 81 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Página 219 - Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door.
Página 172 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 244 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!