How to Parse: An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Scholarship to English Grammar. With Appendixes on Analysis, Spelling, and PunctuationSeeley and Company, Limited, 1902 |
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3rd Sing action Active Participle Adjectival Adjective Phrases Adverb Adverbial Phrase Androcles answer Antecedent Apposition asked Auxiliary Verbs brevity called Clause Co-ordinate Comma Compare Complementary Compound Verb Conditional Mood confusion Conjunction Consequent denote dition Early English explained express French Future Gerundive Grammar Greeks Hence idiom Imperative Mood implied Indicative Indirect Object Inflections inserted Interrogative Intransitive introduced irregularity italicized Verbs ject John king language last Example Latin Layamon lion meaning Modern English notion Noun or Pronoun Number omitted once Parse Passive Participle Past Indefinite Past Tense Period Person Plural Poetry Pope Possessive Adjective preceded Preposition Present Principal Sentence Principal Verb pupil purpose question rascal regarded Regular Construction Relative Pronoun retained seems Shakespeare Singular sometimes sound speak Sub-ordinate Sentence Subject or Object Subjunctive SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD syllable Tell tence termination Thomas thou tion Transitive Verb Verbal Noun Voice vowel walk words Xerxes
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Seite 170 - ... reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay; So thou, with sails how swift ! hast reached the shore " Where tempests never beat nor billows roar ; " And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life, long since has anchored by thy side.
Seite 288 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
Seite 64 - And certainly our language now used varieth far from that which was used and spoken when I was born...
Seite 169 - Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like Night, and darkened all the land of Nile; So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires; Till, as a signal given, th...
Seite 193 - Love, strong as death, the poet led To the pale nations of the dead, What sounds were heard, What scenes appear'd, O'er all the dreary coasts ! Dreadful gleams, Dismal screams, Fires that glow, Shrieks of woe, Sullen moans, Hollow groans, And cries of tortured ghosts ! But, hark!
Seite 193 - The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring : Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! 0 Grave ! where is thy victory? 0 Death! where is thy sting?
Seite 309 - We are descended of ancient families, and kept up our dignity and honour many years, till the jack-sprat THAT supplanted us.
Seite 240 - Our little habitation was situated at the foot of a sloping hill, sheltered with a beautiful underwood behind, and a prattling river before ; on one side a meadow, on the other a green. My farm consisted of about twenty acres of excellent land, having given a hundred pounds for my predecessor's goodwill.
Seite 68 - In expressing expectation and in the simple future shall is used in the first person and will in the second and third persons.