Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All GradesHarper & Bros., 1857 |
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... verbs , expressing an action , by the change of the letter s to c , become practice , and advice , which are nouns . Again , the words comment ' , increase ' , are verbs ; while com'- ment , in'crease , & c . are nouns . In the use of ...
... verbs , expressing an action , by the change of the letter s to c , become practice , and advice , which are nouns . Again , the words comment ' , increase ' , are verbs ; while com'- ment , in'crease , & c . are nouns . In the use of ...
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... verb , the collection is called a phrase . As , The extent of the city ; The path up the mountain ; The house by the side of the river . If the connecting word be a verb , the assemblage of words * There are about sixty words in the ...
... verb , the collection is called a phrase . As , The extent of the city ; The path up the mountain ; The house by the side of the river . If the connecting word be a verb , the assemblage of words * There are about sixty words in the ...
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... verb is a verb that has a subject or nominative . Verbs in the infinitive mood , or the participle , as they have no nominative , are not con- dered finite verbs . boy . Here man is the subject , struck the 18 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... verb is a verb that has a subject or nominative . Verbs in the infinitive mood , or the participle , as they have no nominative , are not con- dered finite verbs . boy . Here man is the subject , struck the 18 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... verb , and boy the object . Some verbs , however , admit no object , after them , and the sentence will then consist of only two principal parts , the subject and the verb . All the other parts of a sentence are merely adjuncts ...
... verb , and boy the object . Some verbs , however , admit no object , after them , and the sentence will then consist of only two principal parts , the subject and the verb . All the other parts of a sentence are merely adjuncts ...
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... verb and the objective , with their respective adjuncts after it . This order , however , it is not necessary al- ways to preserve , but on the contrary the beauty and harmony of the sentence are often greatly increased by a departure ...
... verb and the objective , with their respective adjuncts after it . This order , however , it is not necessary al- ways to preserve , but on the contrary the beauty and harmony of the sentence are often greatly increased by a departure ...
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Page 104 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Page 403 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 372 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens : and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant ; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Page 294 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 403 - 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 be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 404 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 402 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Page 124 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction : once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Page 294 - One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. " The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow thro' the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.