Guide Books to English, Libro 2Silver, Burdett and Company, 1907 |
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... Modifying words , phrases , and clauses should be so placed as to make it clear what words they modify , usually as near them as possible . ( 2 ) Order of Adjectives The stranger was tall , dark , dignified , and courteous . Sweet ...
... Modifying words , phrases , and clauses should be so placed as to make it clear what words they modify , usually as near them as possible . ( 2 ) Order of Adjectives The stranger was tall , dark , dignified , and courteous . Sweet ...
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... modify ? Would young , beautiful prince mean exactly the same as beautiful young prince ? Two signs appeared on the same street . One read , Broiled live lobster , and the other , Live broiled lobster . Were both right ? Did they mean ...
... modify ? Would young , beautiful prince mean exactly the same as beautiful young prince ? Two signs appeared on the same street . One read , Broiled live lobster , and the other , Live broiled lobster . Were both right ? Did they mean ...
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... modifying nouns , as , this book , those children . I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience . - HENRY . Those who think must govern those who toil . - GOLDSMITH . They grow to what they seem ...
... modifying nouns , as , this book , those children . I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience . - HENRY . Those who think must govern those who toil . - GOLDSMITH . They grow to what they seem ...
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... modify nouns and pronouns . Adjectives that describe are called descriptive adjectives . Adjectives that do not describe are called definitive adjectives . A , an , and the are definitive adjectives . have a special name , articles ...
... modify nouns and pronouns . Adjectives that describe are called descriptive adjectives . Adjectives that do not describe are called definitive adjectives . A , an , and the are definitive adjectives . have a special name , articles ...
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... modify . Use in sentences five present participles . Notice that the present participle of believe is spelled believing . Most verbs that end in e drop the e before ing in form- ing the present participle . Write the present participle ...
... modify . Use in sentences five present participles . Notice that the present participle of believe is spelled believing . Most verbs that end in e drop the e before ing in form- ing the present participle . Write the present participle ...
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adjectives adverbs Ameratsu answer ants archery auxiliary beautiful Brutus Cæsar called compound sentences conjunctions copula Copy Dear dependent clause describe exclamatory expletive father figures of speech five sentences following sentences forest garret George Rogers Clark give grammar group of words heaven honor horse Hurrah incomplete predication inflected inflected forms interrogative inverted order John King larvæ letters light LONGFELLOW looked means modify natural order night noun or pronoun object Observe outline painted paragraph passive voice past participle past tense personal pronouns phrase Pickwick plural poem predicate preposition principal clause question quotation Raphael Read refers relative pronoun replied Robin Hood selection SHAKESPEARE ship simple sentences singular Sir Fair-hands story Study subject complement Susano Teacher tell tences thee things tion topics transitive verb tree Tubal Cain write a description
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Página 82 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Página 141 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. But hark that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm! arm! it is — it is the cannon's opening roar!
Página 307 - BOY'S SONG. WHERE the pools are bright and deep, Where the gray trout lies asleep, Up the river and over the lea, That's the way for Billy and me. Where the blackbird sings the latest, Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest, Where the nestlings chirp and flee, That's the way for Billy and me.
Página 165 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Página 204 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Página 195 - ... of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellow-sufferer in persecution. "Poor Wolf...
Página 138 - Brutus and the rest, (For Brutus is an honorable man, So are they all, all honorable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me; But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man.
Página 113 - 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 195 - thy mistress leads thee a dog's life of it ; but never mind, my lad, whilst I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee !" Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity, I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart. In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill mountains. He was after his favorite sport of squirrel shooting, and the still solitudes...
Página 276 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence : Yet I know by...