Connectives of English Speech: The Correct Usage of Prepositions, Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns and Adverbs Explained and IllustratedFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1904 - 324 стор. |
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... give a rule adapted to this office of the particle . It is a palpable defect in nearly all our grammars , that their syn- tax contains no such rule . ' Prepositions govern the objective case , ' is a rule for the objective case , and ...
... give a rule adapted to this office of the particle . It is a palpable defect in nearly all our grammars , that their syn- tax contains no such rule . ' Prepositions govern the objective case , ' is a rule for the objective case , and ...
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... gives first place to the words expressing the important thought , and then pays its grammatical scot at the end of the sentence . It is an element of power in the English lan- guage that it can thus march across technicalities to attain ...
... gives first place to the words expressing the important thought , and then pays its grammatical scot at the end of the sentence . It is an element of power in the English lan- guage that it can thus march across technicalities to attain ...
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... give the meaning , and the words from under have the effect of a compound prepo sition . The first use of prepositions was undoubtedly in the designation of place or space . From this the transition was easy to the idea of time , or of ...
... give the meaning , and the words from under have the effect of a compound prepo sition . The first use of prepositions was undoubtedly in the designation of place or space . From this the transition was easy to the idea of time , or of ...
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... give you when we go , ) you may Boldly assault the necromancer's hall . MILTON Comus 1. 647 . For besides the wasteness of the silence , motionless machines have a look of death about them . MACDONALD Robert Falconer ch . 17 , p . 132 ...
... give you when we go , ) you may Boldly assault the necromancer's hall . MILTON Comus 1. 647 . For besides the wasteness of the silence , motionless machines have a look of death about them . MACDONALD Robert Falconer ch . 17 , p . 132 ...
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... give a child or a place his name , thus naming the person or place after ( in behalf of ) him . [ After - for are often used interchangeably , especially after words expressing desire , striving , search , etc. To thirst after truth or ...
... give a child or a place his name , thus naming the person or place after ( in behalf of ) him . [ After - for are often used interchangeably , especially after words expressing desire , striving , search , etc. To thirst after truth or ...
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A. P. STANLEY Adjectives adverb amid Anglo-Saxon antecedent beneath Brutus Cæsar CARLYLE clause Compare connection CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS Defined and Illustrated derived direction Distinctions EMERSON English Grammar vol equivalent Essays expression fact force friends GEORGE ELIOT hath Henry Hist idea implied infinitive interrogative J. R. SEELEY JEAN INGELOW John Julius Cæsar king language lect LONGFELLOW LOWELL MACAULAY England vol MAETZNER English Grammar meaning Merchant of Venice Middlemarch midst MILTON Paradise Lost motion N. P. WILLIS never night NOTE.-In noun object omitted Paradise Lost bk participle person place or space R. H. DANA reason reference relative pronoun SCOTT Lady sense sentence Sermons SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE Merry Wives ship side soul speak speech Standard Dictionary Tempest act TENNYSON thee things thou thought tion unto usage various relations Venice act verb whence whither WHITTIER Windsor act words WORDSWORTH
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Сторінка 278 - That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Сторінка 256 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Сторінка 315 - There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
Сторінка 198 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Сторінка 241 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Сторінка 83 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Сторінка 23 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Сторінка 84 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Сторінка 10 - But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing, Of gentle breath and hue.
Сторінка 312 - Tell me, where is fancy * bred, Or in the heart, or in the head ? How begot, how nourished ? Reply, reply. It is engender'd in the eyes, With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies : Let us all ring fancy's knell ; I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.