English Grammar: Including Grammatical Analysis1886 - 271 pages |
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abstract noun action adjective clause adjunct of predicate adverb adverbial adjunct adverbial clause Analysis Anglo-Saxon attributive adjunct auxiliary verbs belong better called Chaucer co-ordinate common Compare complement compound conjunction connected consonant construction Crown 8vo dative demonstrative denotes direct object early English expressed F. A. Paley Fcap feminine following sentences French gender genitive German gerund Gothic Greek Imperative Mood incomplete predication Indicative Mood indirect predicate infinitive mood inflexions John language Latin mark masculine means modern English modified neuter nominative Northern dialect notion old English origin Parse Past Indefinite Tense perfect participle Perfect Tense Personal Pronouns phrase Plur plural possessive preceded prefix preposition Pret preterite Prol relation relative pronoun root sense Shaksp Shakspeare simple Sing singular smiting smitten sometimes speak stands Subjective complement Subjunctive Mood substantive clause suffix syllable Teutonic thing Thou transitive verb Verb of incomplete vowel sound weak conjugation word
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Page 244 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys: renown and grace is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
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