Elements of English Grammar

151.

152.

153.

154.

England?

Recent advances in the applications of electricity.

The coal supply of the world.

The qualities that make a great man.

Which do you consider the greatest of the Queens of

155. The inspiring influences of noble associations, corporate or local.

156. The causes of England's preeminence as a colonising nation. 157. Life in an English colony.

158. Warfare in ancient and modern times.

159. Is war an unmixed evil?

160. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

161. Are people better off now than they were a century ago? 162. Travelling-now and in the olden days.

163. The best way of spending a million pounds to benefit the poor of a large town.

164. The value of a classical education.

165. The gains and losses of spending holidays abroad.

166. The disadvantages of mid-term holidays.

167. The use and abuse of athletics.

168. Your ideal of a happy life.
169. Can persecution be defended?
170. John Bunyan and his books.
171. Sir Walter Scott as a novelist.

172. A poem by Browning.

173.

'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and

some few to be chewed and digested.'

174, Travel is a part of education.'

175. Every man is the architect of his own fortune.'

176.

Necessity is the mother of invention.'

177. 'Prevention is better than cure.'

178. As the twig's bent the tree's inclined.'

179. 'A little learning is a dangerous thing.'

180. 'Sweet are the uses of adversity.'

181. God made the country, and man made the town.'

182. All that glisters is not gold.'

183. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.' 184. 'An ounce of sweete is worth a pound of sowre.' 185. Conscience does make cowards of us all.'

186. 'The evil that men do lives after them.' 187. 'Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know.' 188. 'We live in deeds, not years.'

189.

'The old order changeth, yielding place to new.'

190. A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.'

191. The world knows nothing of its greatest men.'

192. Duty, 'stern Daughter of the Voice of God.'

Both man and bird and beast.'

194. A man's reach should exceed his grasp,

Or what's a heaven for?'

195. He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free, And all are slaves beside.'

196.

'Peace hath her victories Not less renowned than war.'

197. Full many a gem of purest ray serene

198.

The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.'
'Evil is wrought by want of thought
As well as want of heart.'

199. He that is truly wise and great
Lives both too early and too late.'

200.

The heights, by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight.'

Accent, 51

Accidence, definition of, 66
Address, nominative of, 97, 231
Adjectives, definition of, 103; compared
with verbs, 104; classified, 104; used
as nouns, 106; inflexion of, 112; not
admitting comparison, 113; comparison
of, 114; suffixes forming, 202; followed
by objective, 238, 245; used attribu-
tively and predicatively, 104, 241;
factitive use of, 241; agreement of,
241; order of, 246
Adjective clauses, 194

Adjunct, attributive, 212; adverbial, 215
Adverbs, definition of, 179; classification

of, 180; formation of, 181; used as
adjectives, 183; as nouns, 190; show-
ing case-endings, 182; simple and con-
junctive, 180; yes and no, 181; com-
parison of, 182, 280; from he, who, the,
182; compound, 182; modify certain
parts of speech, 179; syntax of, 269;
distinguished from prepositions, 189;
distinguished from conjunctions, 270;
meaning affected by position, 271
Adverbial adjuncts, 215; clauses, 195;
object, 238

After, different parts of speech, 64
Agency, suffixes marking, 202
Alms, 89

Alphabet, the English, 55; deficient, re-
dundant, inconsistent, 55; origin of,
59; requirements of a perfect, 55;
phonetic, 56

Alternative conjunctions, syntax of, 254
An, a, origin of; 107; uses of, 108; syn-
tax of, 244

Anacoluthon, 266

Analysis, directions for, 216
Analytic languages, 66

And, redundant use of, 274; colloquially
for to, 281

Angles, original home of, 4
Anglo-Saxon, meaning of, 5

Anomaly, in number of nouns, 89

Antecedent to relative, 125; suppressed,
126

Any, 129

Apostrophe in possessive, 98

Apposition, 233; possessive of nouns in,

98
Archaic plural forms, 88

Are, 172

Articles, 107; not a separate part of
speech, 108; chief uses of, 109; syntax
of, 244

Articulate sounds, 62

Aryan race, original home of, 24; family
of languages, 24; its divisions, 26;
European languages outside, 27

As, relative pronoun, 129; adverb, syn-
tax of, 272, 276

'As follow' or 'As follows,' 273
Aspirates, 53

Asyndeton, 276

Attraction, 248, 251, 255

Attribute, 104; misuse of term, 251
Attributive use of adjectives, 104, 241
Aught, 129

Augmentatives, 202

Auxiliary verbs, 138, 171
Aye, sound of diphthong in, 46

Beef, 13, 88
Better, best, 115
Breaths, 42
Brethren, 88
Bridegroom, 84

Britain, Roman conquest of, 2; English
conquest of, 2

Britons a Keltic race, 2; language of, 2;
what became of the, 4

But, meanings of, 64; as relative, 129;
idiomatic uses of, 191

C, redundant letter, 48
Cambria, 2
Can, 174

Capital letters, when used, 60

Case, definition of, 95; derivation of, 102;
in English and Latin compared, 95; in
nouns and pronouns compared, 96;
how to determine, 100; possessive 97;

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