Intermediate Lessons in English Grammar |
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added adjective clauses adverbial clause antece antecedent apples asserts bark beautiful Bees belongs birds birds sing bright brook called cold comma complex sentences Composition compound sentence conjunctions degree denote possession describe dress ellipsis enlarged example flowers following sentences fourth sentence fragrant garden gender girl laughs grow interrogative irregular verbs James John is diligent kind of clause kind of sentence lessons manner Mary meaning modified subject mountains Name the subject natural order Niagara Falls night nouns ending object past participle past tense Perf perfect perfect tense phrase plural potential mode predicate adjective Prepositions Present pupil rain relative pronoun river second sentence sentence containing shining ship sailed simple subject singular skate speech spoke STANZA stars story SUBJUNCTIVE subordinate clause succeed superlative sweet sweetly swiftly tell tence thing third sentence transitive verb tree walk Write sentences
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Page 58 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 128 - THOU blossom, bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night ; Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, • Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged Year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its...
Page 51 - There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea, There's a kindness in His justice Which is more than liberty.
Page 59 - Those joyous hours are past away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While other bards shall walk these dells, And sing your praise, sweet...
Page 119 - THE VIOLET. DOWN in a green and shady bed, A modest violet grew, Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view.
Page 128 - The trees are now in their fullest foliage and brightest verdure ; the woods are gay with the clustered flowers of the laurel ; the air is perfumed by the...
Page 119 - Its color bright and fair; It might have graced a rosy bower Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed; And there diffused its sweet perfume Within the silent shade. Then let me to the valley go, This pretty flower to see, That I may also learn to grow In sweet humility. Jane Taylor.
Page 128 - Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when...
Page 94 - THE ACTIVE AND THE PASSIVE VOICE. There are two very different ways of using a transitive verb. 1. The object of the verb may denote the receiver of the action. John sawed the wood. William struck Henry. In this case, the person denoted by the subject, acts, and the verb is said to be in the active voice. 2. The subject of the verb may denote the receiver of the action. The wood was sawed by John. Henry was struck by William. In each of these sentences, the subject of the verb denotes the receiver...
Page 121 - IT stands in a sunny meadow, The house so mossy and brown, With its cumbrous old stone chimneys, And the gray roof sloping down. The trees fold their green arms round it — The trees a century old ; And the winds go chanting through them, And the sunbeams drop their gold. The cowslips spring in the marshes, The roses bloom on the hill, And beside the brook in the pasture The herds go feeding at will.