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... stand firmly on an English foundation , on English Grammar , and Sentence - Analysis . It is hoped that these works may contribute something towards making this possible in all cases . THE SCHOOL - HOUSE , UPPINGHAM , Nov. 1867 ...
... stand firmly on an English foundation , on English Grammar , and Sentence - Analysis . It is hoped that these works may contribute something towards making this possible in all cases . THE SCHOOL - HOUSE , UPPINGHAM , Nov. 1867 ...
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... , are alike liable to be mistaken . This is plain ; as pronouns can stand instead of any noun , the verb must agree with the noun which they really represent . 6 VERBS . The following verbs are closely connected with PRONOUNS . 5 VERBS.
... , are alike liable to be mistaken . This is plain ; as pronouns can stand instead of any noun , the verb must agree with the noun which they really represent . 6 VERBS . The following verbs are closely connected with PRONOUNS . 5 VERBS.
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... stand without its noun . ' Each ' is in common usage equivalent to ' every one ' – The two remaining angles are equal to those of the other triangle , each to each . ' Both ' denotes two persons or things taken together ; as— You are ...
... stand without its noun . ' Each ' is in common usage equivalent to ' every one ' – The two remaining angles are equal to those of the other triangle , each to each . ' Both ' denotes two persons or things taken together ; as— You are ...
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... stand without its noun . ' More ' and ' most ' denote both quantity and number . They are the comparative and superlative both of ' much and ' many ; ' thus - much many more more most . most . He asked for more men and more money . Most ...
... stand without its noun . ' More ' and ' most ' denote both quantity and number . They are the comparative and superlative both of ' much and ' many ; ' thus - much many more more most . most . He asked for more men and more money . Most ...
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... stand either before or after its noun ; as- It affects me only . An only son . ' Alone ' stands after its noun ; as- God alone is great . It can Many , ' ' a few , ' ' several , ' denote number , and take plural nouns . ' Much ' denotes ...
... stand either before or after its noun ; as- It affects me only . An only son . ' Alone ' stands after its noun ; as- God alone is great . It can Many , ' ' a few , ' ' several , ' denote number , and take plural nouns . ' Much ' denotes ...
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Adjectival adjective adverb apace Balliol College beautiful blow breath bulrushes clauses clear cloth College conjunctive mood creature cried the Frog curiosity doth dry land English language English Notes Eton College EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE exclaimed the Frog expression eyes 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 SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT Skiddaw soul speak speech sweet content tears 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.