An abridgment of Hiley's English grammar: together with appropriate exercises1853 |
Common terms and phrases
accent action adjectives adverbs antecedent called clause comma compound Conjugate conjunction connected consonant corrected defective verbs denotes derived diligent Ellipsis employed Errors Explain expressed or understood feminine frequently Future-Perfect gender Give govern nouns Gram happy honour IMPERATIVE MOOD implies Indicative Mood Infinitive Mood inserted interrogative Intransitive Irregular Verbs John kind language large type Latin letter means Mention moods and tenses nominative noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns object omitted Passive Voice Past Tense Perfect Participle person or thing person singular phrase Plur plural poetry possessive POTENTIAL MOOD preceding prefixed preposition Present Tense Present-Perfect Tense proper relative repeat the large Saxon semicolon sense sentence signifies simple Sing sometimes speech Study the Lesson Subjunctive SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantive Syntactical RULE Syntax Tense and Perfect third person Thou hast tion transitive verb verse virtue vowel words ending write written
Popular passages
Page 119 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 190 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 187 - The propriety of using a colon, or semicolon, is sometimes determined by a conjunction's being expressed, or not expressed : as, " Do not flatter yourselves with the hope of perfect happiness : there is no such thing in the world.
Page 199 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might?, thy grand in soul? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were : First in the race that led to Glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away — is this the whole?
Page 119 - O the depth of the riches hoth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchahle are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Page 191 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Page 2 - The vowels are, a, e, i, o, u ; and w and y when they do not begin a word or syllable.
Page 119 - O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thy high places. " I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. " How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
Page 108 - COLON. The Colon is used to divide a sentence into two or more parts, less connected than those which are separated by a semicolon ; but not so independent as separate, distinct sentences.
Page 181 - The politeness of the world has the same resemblance with benevolence, that the shadow has with the substance. He had a taste of such studies, and pursued them earnestly.