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adjective adverbs apposition assertion attribute complement auxiliary called Classified conjunctions Connecting Word Construct sentences illustrating Definition Definition.-A denote action distinguish examples EXERCISE expressed feminine following sentences following words Gender girls give the reason grammar group of words horses idea indicative indirect object infinitive inflection interrogative intransitive italicized words ject John names king language Latin masculine meaning modified never nominative absolute noun or pronoun Object Complement Parse passive past participle past tense Perfect Progressive personal pronouns Phrasal possessive predicate prepositional phrase Progressive Tense pupil rain refer relative clause relative pronoun root-infinitive second sentence sentences containing simple sing single word sometimes speaking speech stand strong verbs subjunctive subordinate clauses substantive Teacher.-If tell tence thee thou thought tion to-morrow transitive verb verb-phrases weak verbs write written yesterday
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Page 137 - Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 18 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Page 112 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 70 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Page 137 - He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood ; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed : On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.
Page 114 - A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Page 204 - Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; They lack, I leave; they pine, I live.
Page 90 - AY me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps...
Page 167 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 119 - The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The Moon was at its side : Like waters shot...