A Treatise on the Structure of the English Language, Or, The Analysis and Classification of Sentences and Their Component Parts: With Illustrations and Exercises Adapted to the Use of SchoolsH. Cowperthwait, & Company, 1862 - 258 pàgines |
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abridged according to Rule adjective clause adjective element adverbial clause adverbial element adverbs affirmed Analyze the following ANALYZING AND PARSING Appendix attri attribute called clauses denoting complex element complex predicate complex sentence compound element compound sentence conjunctive adverbs coördinate conjunction copula ellipsis examples EXERCISE expressed following propositions following sentences form the predicate gender George grammatical Hence horse indicated indirect object infinitive interrogative sentence James ject joined limiting adjective loved ment MODELS FOR ANALYZING modifier NOTE noun or pronoun number and person passive form past perfect past tense Perfect Tense Peter the hermit phrase plural possessive potential mode predicate-nominative Pres present tense principal clause Prog progressive form pupil relation relative pronoun relative tense represent second class SECTION sentence containing simple elements simple sentence sing singular number speaker subject and predicate subjunctive subordinate clause subordinate elements substantive clause tence third person Thou tive transitive verb Trochaic words
Passatges populars
Pàgina 182 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Pàgina 132 - But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Pàgina 205 - A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. All words are either primitive or derivative. A primitive word is that which cannot be reduced to any simpler word in the language ; as, man, good, content.
Pàgina 149 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Pàgina 176 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Pàgina 199 - My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death: abide ye here, and watch. And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that; if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.
Pàgina 182 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Pàgina 240 - An adverb is a word used to modify the meaning of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Pàgina 166 - If there be, within the extent of our knowledge or influence, any participation in this traffic, let us pledge ourselves here, upon the rock of Plymouth, to extirpate and destroy it. It is not fit that the land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame longer.
Pàgina 165 - Philosophers assert, that Nature is unlimited in her operations; that she has inexhaustible treasures in reserve; that knowledge will always be progressive ; and that all future generations will continue to make discoveries, of which we have not the least idea.