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... comes to pass that just as the first case can be made into the nominative of a passive verb , e . g . ' I was struck ; ' so also the second case is treated in the same way , e . g . ' I was told . ' If the active sentence contains an ...
... comes to pass that just as the first case can be made into the nominative of a passive verb , e . g . ' I was struck ; ' so also the second case is treated in the same way , e . g . ' I was told . ' If the active sentence contains an ...
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... comes in the fact , that a participle put with the verb always , and an adjective very often , is a predicate , with a construction of its own understood . Thus , ' He runs furious and determined . ' ' Furious and determined ' are not ...
... comes in the fact , that a participle put with the verb always , and an adjective very often , is a predicate , with a construction of its own understood . Thus , ' He runs furious and determined . ' ' Furious and determined ' are not ...
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... come you ? is this the true reason or not ? Whither are Whether How Why do you say so ? How did it happen ? old are you ? Whereof is this table made ? Wherein do you trust ? Whereinto is it changing ? Whereon is this to be placed ...
... come you ? is this the true reason or not ? Whither are Whether How Why do you say so ? How did it happen ? old are you ? Whereof is this table made ? Wherein do you trust ? Whereinto is it changing ? Whereon is this to be placed ...
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... come ( conjunction ) . Along . Along the roadside . Come along with me ( adverb ) . Amidst , or Amid , means ' in the middle of . ' Amidst the storm they sang . Amid the breakers . Among . ( ' Amid ' is gene- rally poetical . ) Stood in ...
... come ( conjunction ) . Along . Along the roadside . Come along with me ( adverb ) . Amidst , or Amid , means ' in the middle of . ' Amidst the storm they sang . Amid the breakers . Among . ( ' Amid ' is gene- rally poetical . ) Stood in ...
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... come for you ( to fetch you ) . I will go for you ( instead of you ) . What have you got for breakfast ? He was angry with me for saying so . speak for laughing . As for you . For my sake . He could not Pretty well for you . wait for ...
... come for you ( to fetch you ) . I will go for you ( instead of you ) . What have you got for breakfast ? He was angry with me for saying so . speak for laughing . As for you . For my sake . He could not Pretty well for you . wait for ...
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Adjectival adjective adverb apace beautiful blow breath bulrushes clauses clear cloth College conjunctive mood creature cried the Frog curiosity doth Dragon-fly dry land English language English Notes Eton College EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE exclaimed the Frog expression eyes father fcap feel female FORM-SUBJECT IN ITALICS formerly Fellow French Grammar Greek hath hear heart hill INTRANSITIVE VERBS labour language Latin little fellow main idea mean mighty heart mind never night noun old English Oriel College Oxford P. G. TAIT participle pealed pluperfect tense plural poetry pond PREDICATE preposition Professor pronoun prose reader replied the Grub round seek sense sentence sight SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT Skiddaw soul speak speech sweet content tell tense thee thing thou thought told truth University of Oxford Uppingham School words writer young
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Page 102 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 219 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 124 - Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 124 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 218 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Page 114 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 113 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Page 87 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Page 114 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St.
Page 208 - Uncared for, gird the windy grove, And flood the haunts of hern and crake, Or into silver arrows break The sailing moon in creek and cove; Till from the garden and the wild A fresh association blow, And year by year the landscape grow Familiar to the stranger's child; As year by year the laborer tills His wonted glebe, or lops the glades, And year by year our memory fades From all the circle of the hills.