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... Nominative , Possessive , and Objective . The Nominative Case comes before the verb , and is the subject of the action ; as , Mary ran away , and Tom followed her . The Objective case comes after a transitive verb , or a prepo- sition ...
... Nominative , Possessive , and Objective . The Nominative Case comes before the verb , and is the subject of the action ; as , Mary ran away , and Tom followed her . The Objective case comes after a transitive verb , or a prepo- sition ...
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Robert Frederick Brewer. The possessive case is formed from the nominative as follows : ( a ) When the noun , whether singular or plural , does not end in an s sound , add an apostrophe and s ; as , lady , lady's ; women , women's , ( b ) ...
Robert Frederick Brewer. The possessive case is formed from the nominative as follows : ( a ) When the noun , whether singular or plural , does not end in an s sound , add an apostrophe and s ; as , lady , lady's ; women , women's , ( b ) ...
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... nominative in number and person ; as , I write , he writes . ( 2 ) The pronoun agrees with the noun for which it stands in number and gender ; as , As Tom was walking with his sister he trod upon her dress . ( 3 ) The relative agrees ...
... nominative in number and person ; as , I write , he writes . ( 2 ) The pronoun agrees with the noun for which it stands in number and gender ; as , As Tom was walking with his sister he trod upon her dress . ( 3 ) The relative agrees ...
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... Nominative Case . ( a ) A verb agrees with its subject or nominative in number and person . ( 6 ) Two or more singular nouns joined by and , require the verb to be plural ; as , Mary and Jane are here . ( c ) Two or more singular nouns ...
... Nominative Case . ( a ) A verb agrees with its subject or nominative in number and person . ( 6 ) Two or more singular nouns joined by and , require the verb to be plural ; as , Mary and Jane are here . ( c ) Two or more singular nouns ...
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... nominative ; in other words , every form of the verb except the infinitive and the participles . * It will easily be seen that subject and predicate are merely new names for nominative and verb , with this difference , that the latter ...
... nominative ; in other words , every form of the verb except the infinitive and the participles . * It will easily be seen that subject and predicate are merely new names for nominative and verb , with this difference , that the latter ...
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Página 78 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Página 78 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 69 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página 53 - Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear...
Página 69 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Página 76 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Página 69 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 77 - Night, of clustering gems A star or two just twinkling on thy brow, Suffices thee ; save that the moon is thine No less...
Página 77 - In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day...
Página 53 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.