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Grammar-land; Or, Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire M. L. Nesbitt Limited preview - 2023 |
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Adjective-Pronouns Adverb answered Adjective answered Dr answered Pronoun answered Serjeant Parsing asked Serjeant Parsing asked the Judge beautiful belong bright eyes Brother Parsing called Certainly CHAPTER children of Schoolroom-shire common noun continued Pronoun continued Serjeant Parsing course court cried Adjective cried Interjection cried the Judge dear dinner extra mark fat hippopotamus Faustus friends Future Tense give good-morning govern the Objective Grammar-land h mute happy hear interrupted the Judge Jack jective Judge Grammar laughing little Article Little Bo-peep look lord lordship Matter-of-fact-land mean name of everything naughty neighbour never nine Parts-of-Speech noun or pronoun Noun's number and person once plural number poor little Pray proper names proper noun Queen question remarked the Judge replied Pronoun replied the Judge sentence sing singular number speak stealing suddenly Syntax tail talking tell thing third person thou tiger tive verses
Popular passages
Page 79 - I played in the heath one day ; And I cried for her more than a week, dears, But I never could find where she lay. I found my poor little doll, dears, As I played...
Page 77 - Lupin was, comforted by the mere voice and presence of such a man; and, though he had merely said " a verb must agree with its nominative case in number and person...
Page 59 - You are He is They are Past Tense I was We were You were You were He was They were Future Tense I shall be We shall be You will be You will be He will be They will be...
Page 60 - I have thou hast he has we have you have they have ^ I had thou hadst he had we had you had they had CONJUGATIONS.
Page 3 - ... of studies. In the most engaging manner, by parable and simile and easy metaphor and still easier matter-of-fact application, it clears up the puzzles and simplifies the hard things of grammar. Separate chapters are given to biographical sketches of rich Mr. Noun and his useful friend Pronoun ; little ragged Article and talkative Adjective ; busy Dr. Verb, and Adverb ; perky Preposition, convenient Conjunction, and tiresome Interjection — with full accounts of their pedigrees and connections,...
Page 78 - Camel's bunch is on his back, The Owl abhors the day. The Sparrow steals the cherry ripe, The Elephant is wise, The Blackbird charms you with his pipe, The false Hyena cries. The Hen guards well her little chicks, The useful Cow is meek, The Beaver builds with mud and sticks, The Lapwing loves to squeak. The little Wren is very small, The Humming-bird is less : The Lady-bird is least of all, And beautiful in dress.
Page 19 - A boy who always told the truth, And never, never told a lie. And when he trotted off to school, The children, all about, would cry, There goes the curly-headed boy, The boy who never tells a lie.
Page 4 - ... that they are rather given to quarreling ; and so it happened one day, when my story begins, they made so much noise, wrangling and jangling in the court, that they woke Judge Grammar up from a long and very comfortable nap. In an instant the Judge's two learned counsellors were by his side. Sergeant Parsing (" Brother Parsing," the Judge calls him,) has a sharp nose, bright eyes, a little round wig with a tail to it, and an eye-glass. He is very quick and cunning in finding out who people are...
Page 6 - ... Syntax. Dr. Syntax is very tall and thin and dark. He has a long, thin neck, covered up with a stiff black tie which looks as though it nearly choked him. When he speaks he stands up, looks straight through his spectacles, sticks out his chin, and says his say in a gruff and melancholy voice, as if he were repeating a lesson. He is the terror of all little boys, for he never smiles, and he is so very, very old, that people say he never was young like other folks; that when he was a baby he always...
Page 6 - ... never be. We must stop it at once. Go and summon all my court before me." Away went Sergeant Parsing, as quick as thought, and soon the whole court was assembled. There was Judge Grammar on his throne, with a long flowing wig and gorgeous robes. At the table below him, sat his two counsellors, Sergeant Parsing and Dr. Syntax. Dr. Syntax is very tall and thin and dark. He has a long, thin neck, covered up with a stiff black tie which looks as though it nearly choked him. When he speaks he stands...