Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition : in which the Science of the Language is Made Tributary to the Art of Expression : a Course of Practical Lessons Carefully Graded, and Adapted to Every Day Use in the School-room, Libro 2Clark & Maynard, 1883 - 282 páginas The aim of this work is to make the science of the language, of which all the essentials are thoroughly presented, tributary to the art of expression. Every principle unfolded in the "Hints," and every idiom, common construction, and form, learned by the pupil in the analysis and parsing of the wide range of sentences given, is fixed in memory and, above all, in practice by varied and exhaustive drill in composition. The pupil is constantly stimulated to the attractive labor of composing sentences, arranging and rearranging their parts, contracting, expanding, punctuating, and criticizing them -- the analysis furnishing him materials for the synthesis, and the synthesis supplementing the analysis. Even if the study of grammar were only to Lodge in the memory the facts and principles of the language, we contend that this could be done only by work and composition -- this, and this only, can make them permanent possessions. The first half of the book is devoted to "The Sentence and the Parts of Speech;" the next thirty pages to "Parts of Speech Subdivided;" the next seventy to "Modifications of the Parts of Speech;" and the remaining thirty to composition. - Preface |
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... Leaves tremble . 8. Worms crawl . 9. Hares lcap . You see that in these sentences there are two parts . The parts , as you have learned , are the Subject and the Predi- cate . DEFINITION . - The Subject of a sentence names that of which ...
... Leaves tremble . 8. Worms crawl . 9. Hares lcap . You see that in these sentences there are two parts . The parts , as you have learned , are the Subject and the Predi- cate . DEFINITION . - The Subject of a sentence names that of which ...
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... Leaves are turning . 7. Sirius has appeared . 11. Nuisances should be abated . 12. Jerusalem was destroyed . 13. Light can be reflected . 14. Rain must have fallen . 15. Planets have been discovered . 16. Palaces shall crumble . 17 ...
... Leaves are turning . 7. Sirius has appeared . 11. Nuisances should be abated . 12. Jerusalem was destroyed . 13. Light can be reflected . 14. Rain must have fallen . 15. Planets have been discovered . 16. Palaces shall crumble . 17 ...
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... leaf and stem and flower , taken singly , you would never master the botany even of your garden plat . But God has made things to resemble one another and to differ from one another , and he has given us the power to detect resemblances ...
... leaf and stem and flower , taken singly , you would never master the botany even of your garden plat . But God has made things to resemble one another and to differ from one another , and he has given us the power to detect resemblances ...
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... Leaves burn or burns . Flesh Clothes Wood burns , Leaves burn , etc. , are sentences , and the nouns wood , leaves , etc. , are the subjects . Every subject of a sentence is a noun , or some word or words used as a noun . But not every ...
... Leaves burn or burns . Flesh Clothes Wood burns , Leaves burn , etc. , are sentences , and the nouns wood , leaves , etc. , are the subjects . Every subject of a sentence is a noun , or some word or words used as a noun . But not every ...
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... leaves fall , we express a fact in a general way . But , if we wish to speak of the time of their falling , we can add a word and say The leaves fall early ; of the place of their falling , The leaves fall here ; of the munner , The ...
... leaves fall , we express a fact in a general way . But , if we wish to speak of the time of their falling , we can add a word and say The leaves fall early ; of the place of their falling , The leaves fall here ; of the munner , The ...
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adjective clause adverb clause Analysis and Parsing apples attribute complement Cæsar called capital letters changed clause expressing comma completed complex sentences compound sentences conjunctive adverbs connected CONSTRUCTION correct these errors DEFINITION.-A degree denotes diagram Direction Direction.-Change Direction.-Contract Direction.-Correct these errors Direction.-Form Direction.-Study the Caution Direction.-Write English Explanation.-The explanatory modifier following nouns friends Future Perfect Tense gender Give and illustrate give your reasons grammar independent clauses infinitive phrase interrogative interrogative word introduced Introductory language learned Lesson masculine meaning mode natural order noun clause noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns object complement omitted passive voice past tense PERFECT TENSE person plural predicate prepositional phrase Pres PRESENT PERFECT TENSE principal word pupils question rain relation Relative Pronouns Rule singing singular sounds speak speech stand subjunctive superlative tell tence things thou thought tion tive transitive verb vowel walk write
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Página 238 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Página 242 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 241 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Página 241 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent, Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high,...
Página 98 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 72 - Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear...
Página 257 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 258 - But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill...
Página 240 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?
Página 242 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.