Tarbell's Lessons in Language, Volum 1Ginn & Company, 1891 |
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abridged active voice adverb adverbial element ALICE CARY ANALYSIS Analyze the following antecedent apple apposition auxiliary auxiliary verbs Bangor High School birds called commas committee complement compound CONJUGATION conjunctions connected CONTRASTED DESCRIPTION Copy the following Daily Doings Club dash DECLENSION denote dependent clause Describe direct object EAST SAGINAW emphatic expressed EXTENDED PARAPHRASE following sentences FORMAL NOTES formed by adding future perfect tenses gender give horse imperative mode indicative mode indirect object indorsement Insert interrogative intransitive intransitive verb kind Lesson letter means metaphor modifiers Noun clause noun or pronoun omitted paragraph past participle past perfect past tense periodic sentences plural potential mode predicate adjective preposition present tense principal pupils quotation rain receipt refer relative pronouns river secretary semicolon simile singular squirrel subjunctive SYNONYMS teacher tell tence Thou thought tive tree verb Write written
Passatges populars
Pàgina 272 - THE stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Pàgina 159 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Pàgina 143 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
Pàgina 34 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Pàgina 238 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding: For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Pàgina 165 - But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease...
Pàgina 280 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?
Pàgina 280 - The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And...
Pàgina 254 - WE sat within the farmhouse old, Whose windows, looking o'er the bay, Gave to the sea-breeze, damp and cold, An easy entrance, night and day. Not far away we saw the port, — The strange, old-fashioned, silent town, — The lighthouse, — the dismantled fort, — The wooden houses, quaint and brown.
Pàgina 191 - In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill mountains. He was after his favorite sport of squirrel shooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and re-echoed with the reports of his gun.