An introduction to English grammarSullivan, 1880 - 144 páginas |
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Abstract Nouns action Active Voice Adverb agreeing Auxiliary Verb bird canst clause Comma Compound Conjunctions connected consonant Defective Verb denotes diligent Direct Object emphatic English equivalent Exercise express Finite Verb following sentences formed by putting FUTURE PERFECT TENSE FUTURE TENSE Gender goose Grammar help Frank horse IMPERATIVE MOOD Indefinite INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD inflected Interrogative Form-Shall Intransitive James Jane John kind loved means Nominative Noun or Pronoun Number and Person Objective Case governed parsed Passive Voice Past Participle PAST PERFECT TENSE PAST TENSE PERFECT TENSE Sign Personal Pronoun Plural Poss Possessive POTENTIAL MOOD PREDICATE Prep Preposition PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE Principal Verb PROGRESSIVE-I pupil Relative Pronoun sent shod Sing smiting smitten Subject SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD syllable Tell tence Third pers thou call Thou hast Thou wilt tive Trans Transitive Verb vowel walk write written دو
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Página 132 - The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Página 129 - The harmless Albatross. The spirit who bideth by himself In the land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow.
Página 9 - I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Página 113 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay ; The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Página 132 - Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew ! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay ! Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. ' The blackening wave is edged with white; To inch and rock the sea-mews fly; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh.
Página 9 - I'll forgive your Highland chief, My daughter ! — oh my daughter...
Página 141 - The colon is used to divide a sentence into two or more parts, less connected than those which are separated by a semicolon ; but not so independent as separate distinct sentences.
Página 142 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Página 132 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free; For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Página 95 - Eske river where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.