Weld's English Grammar: Illustrated by Exercises in Composition, Analyzing and ParsingBailey & Noyes, 1849 - 234 páginas |
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action or event adjunct adverb affirmed ANALYSIS AND PARSING Analyzed apposition attribute auxiliary bird bloom Cæsar called Cicero comma command compound sentence conjunction connected consonant copula DEFECTIVE VERBS definitive adjective derived ellipsis EXAMPLES EXERCISE finite verb following expressions following sentences gender grammatical horse imperative mode Imperfect tense INDICATIVE MODE infinitive mode interrogative intransitive king learner letter limit manner meaning Model modified predicate modified subject NOTE noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns object omitted passive form Perf perfect participle person or thing phrase Pluperfect tense plural possessive POTENTIAL MODE predicate nominative prefixed preposition Present tense principal clause refers regular verb relative pronoun REMARKS RULE second sound SECTION sense ship signifies silent e singular number sometimes subjunctive mode subordinate clause syllable Syntax Tense denotes third person third sound thou tive transitive verb tree Trochaic trochees vowel walk wind wise write yesterday
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Página 152 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Página 56 - So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses...
Página 176 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need ; and they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people.
Página 215 - Strikes thro' their wounded hearts the sudden dread; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of death.
Página 57 - Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled." Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Página 220 - Long, length; high, height." 5. Adverbs of quality are derived from adjectives, by adding ly, or changing le into ly; and denote the same quality as the adjectives from which they are derived: as, from ",base," comes " basely;" from " slow, slowly;" from
Página 82 - If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Página 216 - I saw their chief/' says the scout of Ossian, "tall as a rock of ice; his spear, the blasted fir ; his shield, the rising moon: he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hill.
Página 216 - I seem to myself to behold this city, the ornament of the earth, and the capital of all nations, suddenly involved in one conflagration. I see before me the slaughtered heaps of citizens, lying unburied in the midst of their ruined country. The furious countenance of Cethegus rises to my view, while, with a savage joy, he is triumphing in your miseries.
Página 220 - Adjectives denoting likeness, are derived from substantives, by adding ly; as from man, manly ; earth, earthly; court, courtly, &c. Some adjectives are derived from other adjectives, or from substantives by adding ish to them: which termination, when added to adjectives, imports diminution, or lessening the quality; as, white, whitish; ie somewhat white. When added to substantives, it signifies similitude or tendency to a character; as, child, childish; thief, thievish.