The Rand-McNally English Grammar and CompositionRand, McNally & Company, 1898 - 312 páginas |
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Rand-McNally English Grammar and Composition (Classic Reprint) William D. Hall Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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adjective element adverbial clause adverbial element Analyze the following anapest antecedent appositive asserts attribute auxiliaries beautiful cæsura called classified complex sentences composition compound sentence conjunctive adverb connective Construct sentences illustrating coördinate copulative verb DAVID SWING dear denoting diagrammed Ellipsis EMERSON English equivalent EXERCISE following sentences friends future perfect tense gender GEORGE ELIOT give grammatical predicate grammatical subject heart indicative mode inflected interrogative intransitive letters limit live logical predicate loved meaning MODEL modifiers narrative nominative noun or pronoun object parsed passive voice past participle Past perfect past tense perfect tense placed Plural poetry possessive potential mode present perfect PRESENT TENSE relative pronouns rhyme SHAKSPERE simple sing singular number speech stanza stars are suns subjunctive subordinate conjunction substantive sweet syllable syntax thee thing third person thou thought three sentences tion transitive verb Trochaic trochee usually verse vowel words Write
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Página 38 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Página 102 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Página 101 - The Pilgrim's Progress, In The Similitude Of A Dream AS I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a Dream.
Página 101 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Página 79 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, — A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Página 101 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Página 272 - WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love!
Página 101 - I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and, as he read, he wept, and trembled; and, not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry, saying, What shall I do?
Página 167 - When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know, The yellow violet's modest bell Peeps from the last year's leaves below. Ere russet fields their green resume, Sweet flower, I love, in forest bare, To meet thee, when thy faint perfume Alone is in the virgin air. Of all her train, the hands of Spring First plant thee in the watery mould, And I have seen thee blossoming Beside the snow-bank's edges cold.
Página 34 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...