A Grammar of Late Modern English: For the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, Students, Parte1P. Noordhoff, 1904 |
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... expressed by the following verb is related to fact . 17. To be implies that the action or state mentioned in the predicate is held uncertain , but desirable . It occurs only in certain conditional clauses that express a secondary ...
... expressed by the following verb is related to fact . 17. To be implies that the action or state mentioned in the predicate is held uncertain , but desirable . It occurs only in certain conditional clauses that express a secondary ...
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... expressed in the predicate having come about at all What could have turned the foolish fellow's brain ? LADY OF LYONS , I , 1 . They always wonder what you can see in Miss Smith that is so fascinating ; or what could induce Major Jones ...
... expressed in the predicate having come about at all What could have turned the foolish fellow's brain ? LADY OF LYONS , I , 1 . They always wonder what you can see in Miss Smith that is so fascinating ; or what could induce Major Jones ...
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... expressed by any of the modal adverbs perhaps , maybe , possibly , peradventure . ***** Thus in the two first sentences quoted above , may may be replaced by will perhaps , but this is impossible in the two last . English often has may ...
... expressed by any of the modal adverbs perhaps , maybe , possibly , peradventure . ***** Thus in the two first sentences quoted above , may may be replaced by will perhaps , but this is impossible in the two last . English often has may ...
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... expressed by must is sometimes emphasized by inevitably , of necessity , or some such expression . IV . He held it as a thing quite settled and ordained by the laws of nature and Providence , that anybody who said or did or thought ...
... expressed by must is sometimes emphasized by inevitably , of necessity , or some such expression . IV . He held it as a thing quite settled and ordained by the laws of nature and Providence , that anybody who said or did or thought ...
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... expressed more explicitly by to be destined , to be fated , to be due or phrases of like import . VI . α . But it seemed as if I was destined to offend all the men that day . SAM . TITM . , Cн . III , 31 . But me , not destined such ...
... expressed more explicitly by to be destined , to be fated , to be due or phrases of like import . VI . α . But it seemed as if I was destined to offend all the men that day . SAM . TITM . , Cн . III , 31 . But me , not destined such ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adjective adnom adverbial adjunct adverbial clauses BARRY PAIN BLEAK HOUSE BRONTË CHRISTM CHUZ CLIVE Compare conjunctive adverbs construction copula denoting DOLF HEYL Dutch E. W. HORNUNG Early Modern English ENGL equivalent expressed FAIR following quotations frequently gerund gerund-construction gerund(-clause GOOD-NAT Grammar of Late GRAPH GÜNTH HAML head-sentence HENRY ESM HIST HUXL infinitive infinitive-clause infinitive-construction instances JOHN HAL KATH lady Late Modern English Lord MARN meaning MEES modified MURRAY N. E. GR never NIGHT AND MORN non-prepositional object Note noun OLLA PODRIDA participle PEND PICKW POUTSMA preceded predicative adnominal adjunct preposition prepositional object preterite PRIDE AND PREJ pronoun regularly SCHOOL FOR SCAND seems sentence sometimes stand STOF subordinate statement tell TITM TOM BROWN undeveloped clauses verbs VIII WEBST WESTW word word-group XVII XVIII XXXII
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Página 380 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Página 62 - Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'dst have, great Glamis, that which cries, "Thus thou must do, if thou have it, And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should...
Página 477 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, 1 could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine...
Página 412 - Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Página 49 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear...
Página 332 - ... had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory except virtue. He looked like a great man and not like a bad man. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect ; a high and intellectual forehead ; a brow, pensive,...
Página 703 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I -will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore If thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou sha.lt heap coals of fire on his head.
Página 463 - By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will bless thee...
Página 450 - The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest...