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... sense to the verb , but must merely qualify the essential meaning of the verb . For example , speed or non - speed is inherent in the meaning of ' running , ' therefore you can say ' He runs quick , swift , fast , slow , ' but no mental ...
... sense to the verb , but must merely qualify the essential meaning of the verb . For example , speed or non - speed is inherent in the meaning of ' running , ' therefore you can say ' He runs quick , swift , fast , slow , ' but no mental ...
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... sense , meaning ' a little ' - It is rather cold . game . It is rather cooler . We had rather a good ' Upward , ' ' downward ' - His progress upward . An incline downward . These two words are also adjectives- His upward progress . The ...
... sense , meaning ' a little ' - It is rather cold . game . It is rather cooler . We had rather a good ' Upward , ' ' downward ' - His progress upward . An incline downward . These two words are also adjectives- His upward progress . The ...
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... sense of ' except ; ' as- None were present but the parties concerned . but you ? It is however really an adverb ; as- There were but three . Out of all the number but one returned . But for me you would have been killed . That peach is ...
... sense of ' except ; ' as- None were present but the parties concerned . but you ? It is however really an adverb ; as- There were but three . Out of all the number but one returned . But for me you would have been killed . That peach is ...
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... senses . He is not right in In the afternoon . In the meantime . Just in time . his mind . In June . Once in four years . They spend In English . In vain . their time in quarrelling . In appearance . Indeed . In fact . Instead of . In ...
... senses . He is not right in In the afternoon . In the meantime . Just in time . his mind . In June . Once in four years . They spend In English . In vain . their time in quarrelling . In appearance . Indeed . In fact . Instead of . In ...
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... senses- What is this made of ? Desirous of returning . Afraid of the dark . of great things . Mindful of his duty . Capable ' Of ' nearly always follows the superlative ; as— The last of the Saxon kings . The best of men . In old ...
... senses- What is this made of ? Desirous of returning . Afraid of the dark . of great things . Mindful of his duty . Capable ' Of ' nearly always follows the superlative ; as— The last of the Saxon kings . The best of men . In old ...
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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
Popular passages
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.