Longmans' School CompositionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1890 - 305 էջ |
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... EXAMPLES OF FAULTY SEN- ADJECTIVES Repetition of Articles Comparisons PRONOUNS 170 • 170 TENCES . 173 NONSENSE 252 260 174 OBSCURITY CAUSED BY WORDS It Personal Pronouns 175 · " UNDERSTOOD ' . 263 179 SIMILE AND METAPHOR . 266 Relative ...
... EXAMPLES OF FAULTY SEN- ADJECTIVES Repetition of Articles Comparisons PRONOUNS 170 • 170 TENCES . 173 NONSENSE 252 260 174 OBSCURITY CAUSED BY WORDS It Personal Pronouns 175 · " UNDERSTOOD ' . 263 179 SIMILE AND METAPHOR . 266 Relative ...
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... Examples of Verbs of Incomplete Predication . Predicate . Subject . Verb of Incomplete Predication . Complement . London William The man is was a great city . became Duke of Normandy . rich . Exercise 14 . a . Pick out the Verbs of ...
... Examples of Verbs of Incomplete Predication . Predicate . Subject . Verb of Incomplete Predication . Complement . London William The man is was a great city . became Duke of Normandy . rich . Exercise 14 . a . Pick out the Verbs of ...
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... [ EXAMPLE . Question . What is your name ? Answer . My name is John Smith . 6 If you said simply John Smith ' your answer would not be a complete sentence . ] What is your name ? When were you born ? How old are you ? Where do you live ...
... [ EXAMPLE . Question . What is your name ? Answer . My name is John Smith . 6 If you said simply John Smith ' your answer would not be a complete sentence . ] What is your name ? When were you born ? How old are you ? Where do you live ...
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... examples just given , the following pairs of sentences : - - 1. The boy is crying . The boy is called Tom . 2. The man was hurt . The man is better now . 3. The grocer has sent for the police . The grocer's goods were stolen . 4. The ...
... examples just given , the following pairs of sentences : - - 1. The boy is crying . The boy is called Tom . 2. The man was hurt . The man is better now . 3. The grocer has sent for the police . The grocer's goods were stolen . 4. The ...
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... Examples of the use of semi - colons . The first in loftiness of mind surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last . - Dryden . Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life - blood of a master ...
... Examples of the use of semi - colons . The first in loftiness of mind surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last . - Dryden . Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life - blood of a master ...
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Էջ 26 - Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; Go, soar with Plato to th...
Էջ 29 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Էջ 103 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves; There rest, if any rest can...
Էջ 56 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her — When, oh ! too strong for human hand, The tempest gathered o'er her.
Էջ 48 - When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry
Էջ 50 - And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They...
Էջ 164 - The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh, night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet, lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
Էջ 115 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship Freedom, they will turn their faces toward you.
Էջ 23 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular : and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses...
Էջ 279 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.