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Vocational English, a Textbook for Commercial and Technical Schools George Linnaeus Marsh,William Ray Bowlin No preview available - 2018 |
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adverb advertisement apposition automobile avoid bank beginning business letter called capitalized Chicago comma common Complex-Compound Sentence composition compound sentence conjunction Dear Sir direct object English errors EXAMPLES EXERCISE Explain express following sentences following words future perfect tenses gerund girl give grammatical group of words Incorrect indicate indirect infinitive inflection John kind Mary meaning modified necessary non-restrictive noun or pronoun omitted paragraph Parkersburg High School passive past participle past tense perfect tense person or thing phrase plural possessive adjectives preceding predicate adjective predicate noun preposition present principal punctuation pupil QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER reader rule second person Section semicolon simple singular sometimes speech spelling statement student subjunctive subordinate clauses sure syllables teacher tell third person thought tion transitive verbs truly usually verb form word groups writing
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Page 147 - The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me Yes! that was the reason (as all men know. In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night. Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Page 132 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 133 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in...
Page 146 - Sleep soft, beloved !" we sometimes say, But have no tune to charm away Sad dreams that through the eyelids creep. But never doleful dream again. Shall break the happy slumber when He giveth His beloved, sleep.
Page 18 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 18 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 18 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 147 - ... went away from home with his gun, and never has been heard of since— his dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl.
Page 147 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What...
Page 170 - Words ending in y preceded by a consonant generally change y to i before a suffix. 3. Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel.