A Digest of English Grammar, Synthetical and Analytical: Classified and Methodically Arranged ; Accompanied by a Chart of Sentences, and Adapted to the Use of Schools |
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abridged according to Rule ANALYZING AND PARSING Anapest antecedent apposition auxiliary Brutus Cæsar classes complex predicate complex sentence compound sentence conjunctive adverb connective copula correlatives defective verb definitive denote double compact double relative ellipsis English EXAMPLES FOR ANALYZING expressed FALSE SYNTAX finite verb gender grammar illustrating the rule IMPERATIVE MODE INDICATIVE MODE infinitives and participles interjection interrogative intransitive John letter limited living loose sentence Lord loved modify nominative noun or pronoun object omitted parse the following passive passive voice past tense perfect person and number phrase pleonasm plural POTENTIAL MODE prefix preposition Pres Present Tense principal clause pupil relation relative pronoun rule and remarks simple sing sometimes sound steal subjunctive subjunctive mode subordinate clause substantive syllable tence things thou transitive verb Trochees unto verbal noun verse voice vowel walk wise words Write examples illustrating
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Page 150 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 203 - Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
Page 152 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 97 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Page 218 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 121 - No, sir, this is not the character of the virtue, and it soars higher for its object. It is an extended self-love, mingling with all the enjoyments of life, and twisting itself with the minutest filaments of the heart. It is thus we obey the laws of society, because they are the laws of virtue. In their authority we see, not the array of force and terror, but the venerable image of our country's honor.
Page 210 - What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad ? And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem^ and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
Page 97 - The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.
Page 102 - Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth : but I have called you friends ; for all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you.
Page 122 - ... its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery. Until his last breath, he entertained the idea, that he had merely opened a new way to the old resorts of opulent commerce, and had discovered some of the wild regions of the East. He supposed Hispaniola to be the ancient Ophir, which had been visited by the ships of Solomon, and that Cuba and Terra Firma were but remote parts of Asia.