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according acted adding adjective adjunct adverb agree beautiful called classes clause comma common noun comparative COMPLETE compound conjunction connect CONTAINING DASH OCCURS declarative sentence denotes dependent divided EXAMPLE EXERCISES expresses expresses action feminine finite verb FIVE FOLLOWING SENTENCES four friends George girl GIVE given imperative Imperfect indicative mood infinitive mood INSERT interrogative John kind lady lessons letter live lost loved Mary masculine meaning modified neuter gender nominative noun or pronoun object Perfect Participle Perfect Tense person and number person or thing personal pronoun phrase Pluperfect Tense Plur Plural POINT possessive potential mood preceding predicate preposition Present Tense principal PROPER qualify question relation rule sense separated shows Sign simple Sing singular number speak spoken studying subjunctive mood Syntax TELL things third person Thou tive transitive verb UNITE walked word WRITE written
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Page 94 - A great elm-tree spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweetest water, in a little well formed of a barrel; and then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf -willows.
Page 94 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!
Page 91 - Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest.
Page 71 - Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been loved 1. We have been loved 2. Thou hast been loved 2. You have been loved 3. He has been loved 3. They have been loved Past Perfect Tense.
Page 93 - In the first place, if people are to live happily together, they must not fancy, because they are thrown together now, that all their lives have been exactly similar up to the present time, that they started exactly alike, and that they are to be for the future of the same mind. A thorough conviction of the difference of men is the great thing to be assured of in social knowledge; it is to life what Newton's law is to astronomy. Sometimes men have a knowledge of it with regard to the world in general...
Page 72 - Plural. 1. I might be loved, 1. We might be loved, 2. Thou mightst be loved, 2. You might be loved, 3. He might be loved ; 3. They might be loved.
Page 96 - As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not see it moving ; and it appears that the grass has grown, though nobody ever saw it grow : so the advances we make in knowledge, as they consist of such minute steps, are perceivable only by the distance.
Page 10 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 76 - An Adverb is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Page 60 - Perfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been, 1. We have been, 2. Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been ; 3. They have been. Pluperfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I had been, 1.
Bibliographic information
| Title | First Lessons in English Grammar: Used by the Brothers of the Christian Schools Colecção Excelsior Volume 741 of Harvard reading textbooks preservation microfilm project Ser. Excelsior |
| Author | Christian Brothers |
| Publisher | W.H. Sadlier, 1890 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 21, 2007 |
| Length | 108 pages |
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