Ross's Business EnglishSouth-Western Publishing Company, 1915 - 271 стор. |
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... express action , but are the names of actions . Compare these two sentences : ( Expressing action ) Mary is singing an old song . ( Naming action ) Mary's singing is very sweet . Exercise 4 Tell whether the italicized nouns are abstract ...
... express action , but are the names of actions . Compare these two sentences : ( Expressing action ) Mary is singing an old song . ( Naming action ) Mary's singing is very sweet . Exercise 4 Tell whether the italicized nouns are abstract ...
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... express a greater degree and a greatest degree of the quality which the adjective expresses : Mr. Jones is a tall man . Mr. Smith is taller than Mr. Jones . Mr. Allen is the tallest man in town . These three forms are called degrees of ...
... express a greater degree and a greatest degree of the quality which the adjective expresses : Mr. Jones is a tall man . Mr. Smith is taller than Mr. Jones . Mr. Allen is the tallest man in town . These three forms are called degrees of ...
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... express number are placed before the adjective ; as , the first two sentences ; the last ten pages . Exercise 19 Select the right word in each of the following sentences : I. I like this these kind of oranges better than that— those ...
... express number are placed before the adjective ; as , the first two sentences ; the last ten pages . Exercise 19 Select the right word in each of the following sentences : I. I like this these kind of oranges better than that— those ...
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... express action have objects . The object represents the person or thing receiving the action ; as , John plowed the field . A copulative verb does not express action . It connects the predicate noun with the subject . Compare the ...
... express action have objects . The object represents the person or thing receiving the action ; as , John plowed the field . A copulative verb does not express action . It connects the predicate noun with the subject . Compare the ...
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... express contrary reality ( supposition or wish ) in sentences referring to present time . Were , not was , should be used in such sentences : If I were rich ( but I am not ) , I should do much for the poor . I wish I were able to go ...
... express contrary reality ( supposition or wish ) in sentences referring to present time . Were , not was , should be used in such sentences : If I were rich ( but I am not ) , I should do much for the poor . I wish I were able to go ...
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abbreviation action adjectives modify adverb antecedent Brown business letter collective noun complete complimentary close compound conjunctions connected correct Dear Sir denotes enclosed English Example Exercise express following sentences gender give good-well grammar has-have he-him him-he his-their hyphen I-me improper italicized words in-into infinitive Insert interrogation interrogation points intransitive is-are its-their John lady LESSON look me-I meaning never noun or pronoun object omitting the improper paragraph passive voice payt perfect participle person phrase plural possessive predicate noun preposition present punctuation quotation real-very refers relative clause Reverend rule sales letter salutation semicolon she-her ship singular speak speech Star Brand stenographer street student teacher telegram tell tense they-them things thought transitive verb truly us-we usually verbal noun wagon was—were who-whom Write the following written yesterday
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Сторінка 153 - I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Сторінка 161 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind -- from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
Сторінка 202 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Сторінка 195 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Сторінка 161 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail...
Сторінка 193 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Сторінка 2 - The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Сторінка 169 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Сторінка 201 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Сторінка 1 - Nouns. A Proper Noun is the name of a particular person, place, or thing. A...