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Page 118
... Imperfect and the Perfect . The Imperfect Participle is called by some grammarians the Present and by some the Active ; the Perfect Participle is also called the Past and the Passive . From the Latin particip - are , to share , partake ...
... Imperfect and the Perfect . The Imperfect Participle is called by some grammarians the Present and by some the Active ; the Perfect Participle is also called the Past and the Passive . From the Latin particip - are , to share , partake ...
Page 119
... Imperfect Participles of a . Beat . Break . Speak . Steal . Drink . Sing . Swear . Tread . Ring . Shrink . Spring . Blow . Grow . Know . Throw . Slay . Fly . Buy . Saw . Sow . Lay . b . Weave . Choose . Freeze . Strike . Drive . Give ...
... Imperfect Participles of a . Beat . Break . Speak . Steal . Drink . Sing . Swear . Tread . Ring . Shrink . Spring . Blow . Grow . Know . Throw . Slay . Fly . Buy . Saw . Sow . Lay . b . Weave . Choose . Freeze . Strike . Drive . Give ...
Page 120
... Imperfect Participle of a Transitive Verb may take an Object ; as , ' The boy painting [ Imp . Part . ] a picture [ Obj . ] is my brother . ' This is why the Imperfect is sometimes called the Active Participle . Exercise 138 . Pick out ...
... Imperfect Participle of a Transitive Verb may take an Object ; as , ' The boy painting [ Imp . Part . ] a picture [ Obj . ] is my brother . ' This is why the Imperfect is sometimes called the Active Participle . Exercise 138 . Pick out ...
Page 122
... Imperfect or Perfect , and to what Nouns they are joined . This paper is white as the driven snow . That is now a ... Imperfect . b . Perfect . c . Imperfect used as Adjectives . d . Perfect used as Adjectives . His withered cheek and ...
... Imperfect or Perfect , and to what Nouns they are joined . This paper is white as the driven snow . That is now a ... Imperfect . b . Perfect . c . Imperfect used as Adjectives . d . Perfect used as Adjectives . His withered cheek and ...
Page 123
... Imperfect Participle , by adding -ing to the Verb , but the two are entirely different in origin and in use . 266. A Gerund has Case like a Noun , but it may also govern Case like a Verb . ' See ' Notes for Teachers , ' p . 258 , Note ...
... Imperfect Participle , by adding -ing to the Verb , but the two are entirely different in origin and in use . 266. A Gerund has Case like a Noun , but it may also govern Case like a Verb . ' See ' Notes for Teachers , ' p . 258 , Note ...
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Abstract Noun Adjective Clause Adjuncts Adverbial Clause Analyse the following baby Barbara Frietchie bassoon birds brother child comes Conjunction Conjunctive Adverbs Declension English Examples Exercise father fell Feminine flowers following sentences pick formed Fred garden Gender Gerund girl Give grammatical gender hear heard horse IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect Indicative Mood Infinitive Mood Jack John joining words king lady Latin live Mary Masculine mother Neuter Nominative Notes for Teachers Noun Clause Noun or Pronoun o'er parsing Perfect Continuous Perfect Participle PERFECT TENSE person or thing Plural Number Predicate Preposition PRESENT INDEFINITE TENSE printed in italics qualifies Read Relative Pronoun servant sing Singular Number sister soldier speaking Speech Subject Subjunctive Mood Suffixes tell thee thief thing named Thou Transitive Verb tree Verbs of Incomplete Verbs to show walk William wind window words joined write
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Page 186 - I did consent, And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange, Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Page 122 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade...
Page 234 - Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 123 - SWEET AUBURN! loveliest village of the plain; Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 21 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Page 170 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 93 - His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast— If he may know which way to go; For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him.
Page 111 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 209 - His steps are not upon thy paths— thy fields Are not a spoil for him— thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay.
Page 126 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.