A New English Grammar: Based on the Recommendations of the Joint Committee on Grammatical Terminology, Parties 1 à 3Clarendon Press, 1917 - 190 pages |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
3rd person accusative active voice adjective-clause adjectives adverb-clause adverbs Analyse antecedent apposition AYTOUN boys called clause of condition complex sentence construction dare dative defective verbs denoting number dependent questions dependent statements English grammar equivalent example exclamatory expressed following passages following sentences future perfect genitive gerund give group of words guilders Hamelin indicative mood infinitive introduced King KINGSLEY languages Latin MACAULAY main clause Mayor meaning Modern English never nominative noun noun or pronoun noun-clause number or amount object passive voice past indicative past participle past perfect past subjunctive past tense person or thing Pied Piper pipe plur plural possessive adjective preposition present indicative present subjunctive promise pron qualify R. L. STEVENSON rats relative adverb relative pronoun SCOTT seen sentence-adverb sentences containing SHAKESPEARE simple sentences sing singular sometimes stands subjunctive mood subjunctive-equivalent subordinate clause subordinating conjunction tell TENNYSON thee thou verb-adjectives verb-nouns
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Page 120 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Page 179 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 108 - All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead; And when I ask with throbs of pain, "Ah! when shall they all meet again?" As in the days long since gone by, The ancient timepiece makes reply, — "Forever — never ! Never — forever!
Page 98 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 16 - There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling ; Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping, and little tongues chattering . And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running : All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
Page 21 - Come in!" the Mayor cried, looking bigger: And in did come the strangest figure! His queer long coat from heel to head Was half of yellow and half of red, And he himself was tall and thin, With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin...
Page 55 - Nor suffered they hostelry or tavern To shock with mirth a street so solemn; But opposite the place of the cavern They wrote the story on a column, And on the Great...
Page 143 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Page 121 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
Page 82 - And the muttering grew to a grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling : And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.