Our Living Language: A New Guide to English GrammarT. Nelson and Sons, Limited, 1925 - 301 стор. |
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Our Living Language: A New Guide to English Grammar John Henry Grafton Grattan,Percival Gurrey Перегляд фрагмента - 1929 |
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action actually Adjective Adverbs Alice in Wonderland Auxiliary Brown Cæsar called CARLYLE Chapter classes classification clauses co-ordinate Compound cont Contrast Cranford denote distinction employed expresses futurity fact following sentences Forsyte Saga function G. B. SHAW G. K. CHESTERTON GALSWORTHY GASKELL gender Genitive give grammar grammarians grammatical means Ibid idea Individual-Noun inflexions instances Intransitive italicized words J. M. BARRIE Jespersen label LAMB language Latin LEWIS CARROLL linked literary look mind Modality Modern English Modern Utopia NON-PERSONAL Note noun Noun-Substantive Number-Noun Object Particle person Phrases Plural Possessive Predicate Preposition Present Tense present-day English Pronoun Qualifier R. L. STEVENSON reference Reflexive relation RUDYARD KIPLING SHAKESPEARE Singular speak speaker speaker-for example speech Subject subordinate Substantive Sweet NEG T. L. PEACOCK tences term thought Three Plays tion Unreal Hypothesis vague quantity Vague-Quantity-Noun verb word-order writing
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Сторінка 161 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Сторінка 286 - My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "Have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?" Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. "But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.
Сторінка 40 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Сторінка 282 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.
Сторінка 264 - What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net-purport and upshot of war ? To my own knowledge, for example, there dwell and toil, in the British village of Dumdrudge, usually some five hundred souls. From these, by certain
Сторінка 279 - Everything which another man would have hidden, everything the publication of which would have made another man hang himself, was matter of gay and clamorous exultation to his weak and diseased mind. What silly things he said, what bitter retorts he provoked, how at one place he was troubled with evil presentiments which came to nothing, how at another place, on...
Сторінка 129 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Сторінка 166 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Сторінка 258 - This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses...
Сторінка 117 - ... a variety and stock of knowledge. But I do not propose it as a variety and stock of knowledge, but a variety and freedom of thinking, as an increase of the powers and activity of the mind, not as an enlargement of its possessions.