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action adjectives Adverbs ben e bil'i ty ca'tion called capitals where necessary cate cere clauses comma complimentary closing consonant Copy the following correcting errors Dear Sir Define the following ence English Plural equivocal exclamation point EXERCISE express favor Fill each blank following sentences following words form their plurals four other words friends full stop Future Perfect Tense grammar interjection intransitive verb john bunyan John Wanamaker Jones LANGUAGE LESSONS MANUAL OF LANGUAGE ment messrs nate ness nouns ending object par'a PEIRCE MANUAL Philadelphia preceded preposition present principal pronoun proper punctuation mark received relative pronoun reply respectfully Rule salutation ship signifies similar meaning Singular supplying one word syllable tence thing Thou tion tive truly tude verb vowel walked words and write write opposite Write twenty sentences
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Page 159 - I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to?" Father Abraham stood up, and replied, "If you would have...
Page 154 - Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for nature is the art of God...
Page 16 - There are three cases ; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective. The nominative case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which usually denotes the subject of a finite verb : as, The boy runs ; /run.
Page 69 - ... sources of inexhaustible interest in all that surrounds it: in the objects of nature, the achievements of art, the imaginations of poetry, the incidents of history, the ways of mankind, past and present, and their prospects in the future. It is possible, indeed, to become indifferent to all this, and that too without having exhausted a thousandth part of it, but only when one has had from the beginning no moral or human interest in these things, and has sought in them only the gratification of...
Page 159 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him he proceeded as follows : "Friends," said he, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them, but we have many others and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride...
Page 20 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Page 11 - English nouns ending in o preceded by a consonant form their plurals by adding es to the singular ; as...
Page 154 - Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
Page 156 - The every -day cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time ; giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion ; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still.
Page 42 - An Adverb is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.