New Grammar of the English TongueBlackwood, 1887 - 252 páginas |
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... things in the same class . ( ii ) The name rabbit marks off , or distinguishes , that animal from all other animals ; but it does not distinguish one rabbit from another- it is common to all animals of the class . Hence we may say : a ...
... things in the same class . ( ii ) The name rabbit marks off , or distinguishes , that animal from all other animals ; but it does not distinguish one rabbit from another- it is common to all animals of the class . Hence we may say : a ...
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... things without sex are of the neuter gender , as head , tree , London . Lat . neuter , neither . ( From the same word we have neutral , neutrality . ) ( iv ) Names of animals , the sex of which is not indicated , are said to be of the ...
... things without sex are of the neuter gender , as head , tree , London . Lat . neuter , neither . ( From the same word we have neutral , neutrality . ) ( iv ) Names of animals , the sex of which is not indicated , are said to be of the ...
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... things , passions , powers , or natural forces , we may make them either masculine or feminine . Thus the Sun , Time , the Ocean , Anger , War , a river , are generally made masculine . On the other hand , the Moon , the Earth ...
... things , passions , powers , or natural forces , we may make them either masculine or feminine . Thus the Sun , Time , the Ocean , Anger , War , a river , are generally made masculine . On the other hand , the Moon , the Earth ...
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... the mode of indicating whether we are speaking of one thing or of more . 18. The English language , like most modern languages , has two numbers : the singular and the plural . ( i ) Singular comes from the Lat . singuli GENDER . 15.
... the mode of indicating whether we are speaking of one thing or of more . 18. The English language , like most modern languages , has two numbers : the singular and the plural . ( i ) Singular comes from the Lat . singuli GENDER . 15.
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... things ( a ) That consist of two or more parts ; or ( b ) That are taken in the mass . ( a ) The following is a list of the first : -- Bellows . Drawers . Pincers . Lungs . - Pliers . Scissors . Shears . Snuffers . Spectacles . ( b ) ...
... things ( a ) That consist of two or more parts ; or ( b ) That are taken in the mass . ( a ) The following is a list of the first : -- Bellows . Drawers . Pincers . Lungs . - Pliers . Scissors . Shears . Snuffers . Spectacles . ( b ) ...
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abstract nouns accented syllable adjective adverb amphibrachs Cæsar cæsura called cognate Compare compound conjunctions connected consonant dactyls dative denotes derived direct object doublet ending is disguised English language English words Enlargement EXERCISE feminine following words French function Future Perfect Tense gender gerund Give examples govern Grammar Greek Hence hybrids iambic pentameter Imperative Mood INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive inflected inflexion Intransitive Julius Cæsar kind king masculine meaning Milton modifies neuter nominative noun sentence Paraphrase Parse the words participle passage Past Indefinite Tense Past Perfect past tense Perfect Tense phrase plural possessive Predicate preposition Present Perfect Principal Sentence rhymes root RULE Shakespeare Show simple sentences Singular sometimes sound speak speech striking struck Subjunctive Mood subordinate sentences suffix superlative syntax Tetrameter things thou tive transitive verb trochees unaccented verse vowel walked weak verbs words in italics write
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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!