Greene's Analysis: A Treatise on the Structure of the English Language; Or, The Analysis and Classification of Sentences and Their Component Parts with Illustrations and Exercises, Adapted to the Use of SchoolsThomas, Cowperthwait, & Company, 1848 - 258 páginas |
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abridged according to Rule active voice adjective clause adjective element adverbial clause adverbial element adverbs affirmed Analyze the following ANALYZING AND PARSING Cæsar called clauses denoting common form complex element complex predicate complex sentence compound element compound sentence connectives contains coördinate conjunction copula ellipsis examples EXERCISE expressed following sentences gender George Hence horse indicated indirect object infinitive interrogative sentence ject lesson limiting adjective loved manner ment MODELS FOR ANALYZING modifier nominative NOTE noun or pronoun number and person passive form past participle past perfect Past Tense Perfect Tense Peter the hermit plural possessive potential mode predicate-nominative Pres present perfect present tense principal clause Prog progressive form qualifying adjective relation relative pronoun Relative Tenses represent second class SECTION simple elements simple sentence sing singular number speaker subject and predicate subjunctive subordinate clause subordinate elements substantive clause syllable tence third person thou tion tive transitive verb Trochaic
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Página 182 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Página 132 - But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Página 205 - A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. All words are either primitive or derivative. A primitive word is that which cannot be reduced to any simpler word in the language ; as, man, good, content.
Página 149 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Página 10 - Shut now the volume of history, and tell me, on any principle of human probability, what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers. Tell me, man of military science, in how many months were they all swept off...
Página 182 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 199 - Metonymy is a figure by which we put the cause for the effect, or the effect for the cause; as, when we say, "He reads Milton,
Página 239 - An adverb is a word used to modify the meaning of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Página 189 - The first emotions which touched my breast, were those of mingled pity and veneration. But how soon were all my feelings changed ! The lips of Plato were never more worthy of a prognostic...
Página 189 - I had heard the subject handled a thousand times : I had thought it exhausted long ago. Little did I suppose that, in the wild woods of America, I was to meet with a man whose eloquence would give to this topic a new and more sublime pathos than I had ever before witnessed.