The Acting Teacher's and Student's in Training Guide and Text Book for Certificate Examinations1873 - Student teachers |
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... Pronoun is a word used instead of a noun : as John fights ; he is brave . 5. The Adverb is a word which modifies a verb , adjective , or other adverb . Its main use is to modify the verb , with which it is related as the adjective is to ...
... Pronoun is a word used instead of a noun : as John fights ; he is brave . 5. The Adverb is a word which modifies a verb , adjective , or other adverb . Its main use is to modify the verb , with which it is related as the adjective is to ...
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... pronoun ) ; thus , in the sentence , John is with William , there is an evident relation between the per- sons John and William , and this actual relation is expressed , grammatically , by assigning case to William . Sometimes this case ...
... pronoun ) ; thus , in the sentence , John is with William , there is an evident relation between the per- sons John and William , and this actual relation is expressed , grammatically , by assigning case to William . Sometimes this case ...
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... pronouns it will be seen that these have other case forms . But there are other cases to nouns also ; though they are not marked by any differences of form . Thus , we generally recognize three cases in English , -1 , the Nominative ; 2 ...
... pronouns it will be seen that these have other case forms . But there are other cases to nouns also ; though they are not marked by any differences of form . Thus , we generally recognize three cases in English , -1 , the Nominative ; 2 ...
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... pronouns and adjectives as well as nouns , and that we retain many of these forms yet . The Possessive case : we have seen that this takes a different form from the nominative , generally marked by ' s , added to the singular and plural ...
... pronouns and adjectives as well as nouns , and that we retain many of these forms yet . The Possessive case : we have seen that this takes a different form from the nominative , generally marked by ' s , added to the singular and plural ...
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... pronoun ) expressed or implied , as ' God is good ; ' where good qualifies God ; ' He is good ; ' where good qualifies the pronoun standing as a deputy for the noun pre- viously mentioned . But the adjective cannot itself be the subject ...
... pronoun ) expressed or implied , as ' God is good ; ' where good qualifies God ; ' He is good ; ' where good qualifies the pronoun standing as a deputy for the noun pre- viously mentioned . But the adjective cannot itself be the subject ...
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99 Poss adjective adverb America Anglo Saxon Arctic are,-the Atlantic bank Berbice bisect Brazil British Cape Colony capital cent centre chief towns circle circumference coast colony common defeated Describe district divided draw Edward Edward III elevated England English equal equation Explain exported feet flowing fraction France French Give given straight line greater Gulf Stream Henry Henry II Indian infants islands Isle join king Lake land latter length lesson maize Mediterranean miles long mountain mouth noun object Ocean Pacific Paraguay parallel parallelogram Parliament participle Pennine plural port predicate prepositions Prince pronoun quantity reign right angles rises river ruled Russia Saxon Scotland side singular square of AC Table-land TENSE Thou triangle tributary valley verb vulgar fractions Wales word
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Page 51 - The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle...
Page 19 - To draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line, it is required to draw a straight line through the point A, parallel to the straight line BC.
Page 15 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 51 - And all that freedom's highest aims can reach, Is but to lay proportion'd loads on each. Hence, should one order disproportion'd grow, Its double weight must ruin all below. O then how blind to all that truth requires, Who think it freedom when a part aspires! Calm is my soul, nor apt to rise in arms, Except when...
Page 20 - THE straight lines which join the extremities of two equal and parallel straight lines, towards the same parts, are also themselves equal and parallel.
Page 54 - See here thy pictur'd life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength > Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Page 20 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 44 - AB; but things which are equal to the same are equal to one another...
Page 18 - If a straight line fall upon two parallel straight lines, it makes the alternate angles equal to one another . and the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite upon the same side ; and likewise the two interior angles upon the same side together equal to two right angles.
Page 41 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.