Practical Exercises in EnglishHarper & Brothers, 1895 - 152 strani |
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A. S. Hill accept adjective adjectives and adverbs adverb assert battle of Gettysburg be¹ beautiful better bird blank boat boys brother called Century Dictionary clauses common conditional sentences confess correct deceived dictation exercise difference in meaning Dorothy eagle English errors EXERCISE fault feel following sentences Foundations of Rhetoric frightened give the reason hawksbill turtle horse HOTCHKISS SCHOOL Ibid implies Insert the proper italicized forms Kennebunkport kind king lease lived look means properly misused noun omitted Past Indicative persons or things plural preferable preposition Principles of Rhetoric pronoun proper word properly means propose pupils rain relative clause relative pronoun reputable revised edition ride sense singing singular sister sorry speak speaker subjunctive idea subjunctive mood supposition teacher Tell the difference tences tense thou ticket elected tion to-day to-morrow Transpire verb write
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Stran 129 - Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and the Passing of Arthur...
Stran 62 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Stran 132 - HISTORY . $1.50 From the discovery to the present day. By ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, LL.D., Professor of History, Harvard University. THESE volumes correspond to the four subdivisions required by the College Entrance Examination Board, and by the New York State Education Department. Each volume is designed for one year's work. Each of the writers is a trained historical scholar, familiar with the conditions and needs of secondary schools.
Stran 128 - ... and the principles upon which Mr. Matthews insists with such quiet force and good taste are those which must be adopted, not only by every student of American writings, but by every American writer, if he is going to do work that is really worth doing.
Stran 74 - When I say unto the wicked, thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Stran 6 - o."— If the final "o" is preceded by a vowel, the plural is formed regularly, ie, by adding "s:" as, cameo, cameos. If the final "o" is preceded by a consonant, the tendency of modern usage is to form the plural by adding "es:" as, hero, heroes ; potato, potatoes. The following common words, however, still form the plural by adding
Stran 41 - English also of persons), and that indifferently of either, except after a preposition, where only who or which can stand. Some recent authorities teach that only that should be used when the relative clause is limiting or defining : as, the man that runs fastest wins the race ; but who or which when it is descriptive or coordinating : as, this man, who ran fastest, won the race; but though present usage is perhaps tending in the direction of such a distinction, it neither has been nor is a rule...
Stran 33 - Note that sui is a reflexive, that is, that it refers to the subject of the clause in which it stands (direct reflexive), or, standing in a subordinate clause, refers to the subject of the leading verb (indirect reflexive).
Stran 77 - When, however, the subject though plural in form is singular in sense, the verb should be singular; when the subject though singular in form is plural in sense, the verb should be plural. Under this rule the following are right: — " Positive politics does not concern itself with history.
Stran 23 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving: you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.