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... present class - book is in no respect a condensation of the Progressive Grammar . It is constructed on a plan of its own . Teachers have had abundant experience of misnamed Primary Grammars , and First Lines , and other grammatical ...
... present class - book is in no respect a condensation of the Progressive Grammar . It is constructed on a plan of its own . Teachers have had abundant experience of misnamed Primary Grammars , and First Lines , and other grammatical ...
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... present if the pupil clearly understands that the Subject consists of all the words naming the person or thing spoken about ; and the Predi- cate , of all the words used in making the statement . IV . A LESSON IN CRITICISING . 1. We are ...
... present if the pupil clearly understands that the Subject consists of all the words naming the person or thing spoken about ; and the Predi- cate , of all the words used in making the statement . IV . A LESSON IN CRITICISING . 1. We are ...
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... present , remember that ninety - nine Nouns out of ev- ery hundred form their Plural in this way . 6. Now let us take the Verbs in the two sentences given above . We say , " The river flows , " and We say , " The rivers flow . " 7. You ...
... present , remember that ninety - nine Nouns out of ev- ery hundred form their Plural in this way . 6. Now let us take the Verbs in the two sentences given above . We say , " The river flows , " and We say , " The rivers flow . " 7. You ...
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... Present Time ends in s ; the Plural lacks the s . Remember the rule for the plural of Nouns and the plural of Verbs , by remembering that the rule for putting the s to Verbs si just the reverse of the rule for putting it to Nouns . S is ...
... Present Time ends in s ; the Plural lacks the s . Remember the rule for the plural of Nouns and the plural of Verbs , by remembering that the rule for putting the s to Verbs si just the reverse of the rule for putting it to Nouns . S is ...
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... present time generally ends in s , and that it differs from the plu- ral only in having the s . Now , just as there are irregu- lar plurals of Nouns , so there are a few irregular plu- rals of Verbs . Thus- The Plural of is is . are ...
... present time generally ends in s , and that it differs from the plu- ral only in having the s . Now , just as there are irregu- lar plurals of Nouns , so there are a few irregular plu- rals of Verbs . Thus- The Plural of is is . are ...
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Page 27 - A MAN of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds...
Page 163 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame : Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depth of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 163 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Page 163 - Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God.
Page 64 - The sun rose high, and sank, and the battle still raged. Through all the wild October day, the clash and din resounded in the air. In the red sunset, and in the white moonlight, heaps upon heaps of dead men lay strewn, a dreadful spectacle, all over the ground.
Page 115 - ... that had been spoken during the whole three weeks that we had been silent, if I may use that expression. It was now very early in the morning, and yet, to my surprise, I heard somebody say, ' Sir John, it is midnight, and time for the ship's crew to go to bed.
Page 71 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Page 79 - My dear child," said the old mouse, "it is most happy that you did not go in, for this house is called a trap, and you would never have come out again, except to have been devoured, or put to death in some way or other. Though man has not so fierce a look as a cat, he is as much our enemy, and has still more cunning.
Page 115 - ... mixed with a gentle hissing, which I imputed to the letter S, that occurs so frequently in the English tongue. I soon after felt a breeze of whispers rushing by my ear; for those, being of a soft and gentle substance, immediately liquefied in the warm wind that blew across our cabin.
Page 171 - Sell, Send, Set, Shake, Shape, Shave, Shear, Shed, Shine, Shoe, Shoot, Show, Shred, Shrink, Shut, Sing, Sink, Sit, Slay, Sleep, Slide, Sling, Slink, Slit, Smite, Sow, Speak, Speed, Spend, Spill, Spin, Spit, ETYMOLOGY.