Principles of English Composition Through Analysis and Synthesis: A Text-book for the Senior Classes of Elementary Schools and for Pupil-teachers |
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3rd person absolute phrase adjective clause Adjuncts to Object Adjuncts to Predicate adverbial adjuncts Adverbial clause adverbial phrase analysis antecedent beaten path birds brother Byron Cæsar called clause expressing clause in apposition clause it qualifies clause of concession clause of condition clause they qualify Clauses introduced common COMPLEX SENTENCES composition Compound relative clause compound sentence condensed construction denoted draught horses educated ellipsis English equivalent error excludes EXERCISE expanded favour following sentences Goyen Hastings hence Henry admired James honourable imperative mood inversion John Key and Companion Kind of Clause king limiting adjuncts living Lord Cardigan means ment noun cl noun clause Parse participial phrase placement plural position possessed Principal clause prose qualifying words queen reading-books relative pronoun resolve the sentence rule sentence should read simple singular subject of reference subordinate clause synthesis teacher tence things tion usually placed VARIATIONS verb weather been fair write
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Page 17 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 13 - While treating of the pronunciation of those who minister in public, two other words occur to me which are very commonly mangled by our clergy. One of these is " covetous," and its substantive,
Page 107 - Towards the approach of day, the noise in some measure subsided, long before objects were distinguishable, the Pigeons began to move off in a direction quite different from that in which they had arrived the evening before, and at sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. The howlings of the wolves now reached our ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, raccoons, opossums and pole-cats were seen sneaking off, whilst eagles and hawks of different species, accompanied by a crowd of vultures,...
Page 107 - God ; we have gone astray like lost sheep : we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Page 13 - Her own story was that she had a quarrel with the deceased, first about her wages, and secondly about the soup, and that she seized the deceased by the throat, and she fell, and when she got up she was looking for something to strike her with, and upon this she struck the deceased a blow on the throat, and she fell, and died almost instantaneously.
Page 111 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Page 14 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 99 - ... him a sum of money if he would depart the kingdom without effusion of blood ; but his offer was rejected with disdain ; and William, not to be behind with his enemy in vaunting, sent him a message by some monks, requiring him either to resign the kingdom, or to hold it of him in fealty, or to submit their cause to the arbitration of the pope, or to fight him in single combat. Harold replied, that the God of battles would soon be the arbiter of all their differences...
Page 17 - I will not barter English commerce for Irish slavery ; that is not the price I would pay, nor is this the thing I would purchase.