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Grammar and Composition: For Common Schools (Classic Reprint) Eliphalet Oram Lyte No preview available - 2018 |
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abridged clause active voice Analyze the following antecedent boys brave called clause modifies co-ordinate conjunction cognate object combination of words complement compound sentence conj conjunctive pronouns Correct the following denote direct object EXAMPLES express finite verb following errors following sentences foregoing sentences form to agree gender imperative mood indicative mood indirect Inductive Lesson.-1 interjections interrogative intransitive introduce James join lesson letter modifies the noun nominative non-finite verb noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns omitted ORAL ANALYSIS ORAL PARSING OUTLINE passive voice perfect participle person and number person or thing phrase plural number possessive potential mood preposition present infinitive Present Tense Present-Perfect Tense proper noun pupils QUESTIONS.-What refer relative pronoun represent seen sing singular number sometimes Special Rule speech subjective predicate noun subjunctive mood subordinate conjunctive TEACHER.-See Appendix tence third sentence thou tion transitive verb verbal wise Write WRITTEN PARSING
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Page 192 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 191 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 172 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 191 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 240 - ... he assumed a decided tone. He told them it was useless to murmur, the expedition had been sent by the sovereigns to seek the Indies, and, happen what might, he was determined to persevere, until, by the blessing of God, he should accomplish the enterprise...
Page 57 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 187 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 2 - Begin with capitals the names of the days of the week and the months of the year.
Page 226 - MY DEAR SIR, — Though personally a stranger to you, I am about to request of you the greatest favor which I can receive from any man. I am to be married to Miss Sophia Peabody ; and it is our mutual desire that you should perform the ceremony. Unless it should be decidedly a rainy day, a carriage will call for you at half past eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
Page 191 - And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.