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Common terms and phrases
Abraham Lincoln adjective clause adverbial clause adverbial phrase antecedent appositive beautiful breathe called adverbs commas complement complete predication complex sentences compound sentence conjunctive adverb coördinate denote Emancipation Proclamation English express father finite verb flowers following sentences FUTURE PERFECT TENSE grammar happy horse independent propositions indicative mode infinitive inflections interjection intransitive John kind of modifier language Latin Let us parse loved modes and tenses modifies the meaning nominative noun clause noun or pronoun object past participle PAST PERFECT TENSE past tense person and number person or thing plural number possessive predicate noun predicate verb prefix PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE principal proposition punctuation relative pronoun second sentence seen sentences show sentences the word simple sentence sing sweetly speaking stem subjunctive mode subordinate conjunction suffixes superlative tell tences thee third person thou thought tive transitive verbs tree walked Write five sentences Write sentences
Popular passages
Page 171 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 17 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Page 166 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent...
Page 73 - His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before: — " Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 200 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Page 132 - Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air, as the priest with his hyssop Sprinkles the congregation, and scatters blessings upon them.
Page 19 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Page 156 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 7 - Beautiful hands are those that do Work that is earnest, brave and true. Moment by moment the long day through.
Page 171 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.