A Working Grammar of the English Language: Designed to Give in Simple Statement the Principles and Methods of Correct English Speech and WrittingFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1917 - 333 pages |
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action added adjunct adverb antecedent appositive auxiliary verbs called comparative complete predicate complete subject complex sentence compound essential subject compound sentence conjugation conjunction denoting direct object English language essential predicate EXERCISE expressed feminine finite verb gender give given grammar grammarians Hence Imperative Mode indeterminate Indicative Mode infinitive phrase interjection IRREGULAR VERBS loved masculine meaning Mode Present modifying the essential negative neuter Nominative Absolute NOTE noun or pronoun omitted parse Passive Voice past indicative past participle Past Perfect past tense Perfect Tense person and number personal pronoun plural possessive Potential Mode preceded predicate adjective predicate nominative predicate verb prepositional phrase Pres present participle Present Perfect principal verb referred relative pronoun root-form rule second person singular SHAKESPEARE simple sentence singular number speech Subjunctive Mode superlative taking an object tell TENSES Present third person singular thou thought tive transitive verb
Popular passages
Page 74 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 27 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Page 174 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining ? XX.
Page 71 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 65 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate. Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise! No more; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Page 69 - ... than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father? Oph. At home, my lord. Ham. Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in's own house.
Page 253 - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 128 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 13 - Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment ; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Page 78 - That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.