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... mean ? ( The subject is you . ) ( 5 ) IMPERSONAL it . The word it is used with ex- pressions referring to the weather : It is hot . It is raining . This impersonal it is the subject of the sentence . ( 6 ) THE EXPLETIVE there . - In the ...
... mean ? ( The subject is you . ) ( 5 ) IMPERSONAL it . The word it is used with ex- pressions referring to the weather : It is hot . It is raining . This impersonal it is the subject of the sentence . ( 6 ) THE EXPLETIVE there . - In the ...
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... means a leaving out , a defect . A sentence in which such omission occurs is called an elliptical sentence : He is taller than I. This is interesting if true . He wrote the story while waiting for a train . These sentences are clear in ...
... means a leaving out , a defect . A sentence in which such omission occurs is called an elliptical sentence : He is taller than I. This is interesting if true . He wrote the story while waiting for a train . These sentences are clear in ...
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... ; curriculum , curricula ; erratum , errata ; memorandum , memoranda ; stratum , strata . Data is the plural of datum . It means the given facts . Datum is never used . Nouns with the singular in is have a plural in NOUNS 39.
... ; curriculum , curricula ; erratum , errata ; memorandum , memoranda ; stratum , strata . Data is the plural of datum . It means the given facts . Datum is never used . Nouns with the singular in is have a plural in NOUNS 39.
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... means time . A verb representing present time is in the present tense : I sing . A verb representing past time is in the past tense : I sang . The past participle will be explained morè fully later . It is enough to say now that it is ...
... means time . A verb representing present time is in the present tense : I sing . A verb representing past time is in the past tense : I sang . The past participle will be explained morè fully later . It is enough to say now that it is ...
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... means to exist , for example : Whatever is , is right . In this sentence from Pope's Essay on Man , the first is is a verb of complete predication ; the second is is not . 9. Active and Passive Voice . - A verb in the active voice ...
... means to exist , for example : Whatever is , is right . In this sentence from Pope's Essay on Man , the first is is a verb of complete predication ; the second is is not . 9. Active and Passive Voice . - A verb in the active voice ...
Common terms and phrases
ABBREVIATIONS accusative Accusative-dative Genitive SINGULAR adjectival adjective adverb adverbial clause antecedent apposition better bird brother change in form comma complex sentence containing considered coordinate Dative example exclamation EXERCISE expletive expressions Faulty feminine Fill the blank final consonant following sentences form the genitive Genitive SINGULAR NUMBER gerund grammatical Harry hyphen idiom Incorrect infinitive phrase interrogative intransitive John kind linking verb logical conjunction masculine modifies mood never nominative absolute Nominative Accusative-dative Genitive non-essential non-modal form NOTE noun object omitted parentheses and explain passive Past future perfect past participle PAST PERFECT past tense plural number preposition present participle present perfect principal clauses punctuation relative pronoun Second person simple singular number Smith structural conjunction student subject substantive subjunctive subjunctive mood subordinate clause substantive clause suffix tell thing Third person thought tion tive transitive verb usually verb phrase wanted Write a complex written The letter Wrong
Popular passages
Page 12 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 159 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 159 - If England were swallowed up by the sea to-morrow, which of the two, a hundred years hence, would most excite the love, interest, and admiration of mankind, — would most, therefore, show the evidences of having possessed greatness, — the England of the last twenty years, or the England of Elizabeth, of a time of splendid spiritual effort, but when our coal, and our industrial operations depending on coal, were very little developed?
Page 21 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny ; but content myself with wishing — that I may be one of those whose follies cease with their youth ; and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Page 70 - SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be?
Page 83 - THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears.
Page 26 - There cherries grow that none may buy, Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry. Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row, Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow: Yet them no peer nor prince may buy, Till Cherry- Ripe...
Page 64 - Some of you delight to flaunt in our faces the warning against sectional parties given by Washington in his Farewell Address. Less than eight years before Washington gave that warning he had, as President of the United States, approved and signed an act of Congress enforcing the prohibition of slavery in the Northwestern Territory, which act embodied the policy of the government upon that subject up to and at the very moment he penned that warning ; and about one year after he penned it, he wrote...
Page 136 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 15 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...