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... clause modifiers ; adverb , adverb phrase , and adverb clause modifiers ; and propositions . If unity is secured , then , by joining elements of equal rank , it is obvious that unity is destroyed by joining elements of unequal rank . A ...
... clause modifiers ; adverb , adverb phrase , and adverb clause modifiers ; and propositions . If unity is secured , then , by joining elements of equal rank , it is obvious that unity is destroyed by joining elements of unequal rank . A ...
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... Adverb modifiers . The modifier of any part of the sen- tence except the nouns and pronouns is called adverbial . Ad- verbial modifiers are in form : ( 1 ) an adverb , ( 2 ) an adverb phrase , this including the infinitive , ( 3 ) an adverb ...
... Adverb modifiers . The modifier of any part of the sen- tence except the nouns and pronouns is called adverbial . Ad- verbial modifiers are in form : ( 1 ) an adverb , ( 2 ) an adverb phrase , this including the infinitive , ( 3 ) an adverb ...
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... Adverbial ideas , especially of time and cause , are frequently given ( 1 ) by participial phrases , adjectival in form , and ( 2 ) by absolute phrases . For example , the causal idea in the follow- ing adverb clause , " As the horse ...
... Adverbial ideas , especially of time and cause , are frequently given ( 1 ) by participial phrases , adjectival in form , and ( 2 ) by absolute phrases . For example , the causal idea in the follow- ing adverb clause , " As the horse ...
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... clause , we call the sentence complex . Hence the difference between a simple sentence and a complex sentence is ... adverb clauses . In the next chapter you will have other exercises emphasizing the expression of exact relations of ...
... clause , we call the sentence complex . Hence the difference between a simple sentence and a complex sentence is ... adverb clauses . In the next chapter you will have other exercises emphasizing the expression of exact relations of ...
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१९ ९९ adjective adverb clause aloud bees beginning birds business letter called capital letter chapter Christmas clause climax color comma composition compound sentence dear definite words door EDWARD ROWLAND SILL effect example EXERCISE express Fill the blanks following sentences friendly letter GERTRUDE ATHERTON girls give horse impression interest KENNETH GRAHAME look meaning modifiers mother never night noun Oral STUDYING outline paragraph PERIODIC SENTENCES person phrases picture point of view predicate pronoun punctuation pupils quotation reader RICHARD HARDING DAVIS roundheads Rule salutation scene secure Silas Marner sincere sound squirt guns Stevenson story street subject complements suggested sure synonyms talk teacher tell tence theme things thought topic sentences Treasure Island tree truth unity variety verb wish woman Written WRITING yesterday
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Page 74 - Tirra lirra,' by the river Sang Sir Lancelot. She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro...
Page 23 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 230 - These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung! The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung!
Page 120 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.
Page 76 - Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed...
Page 132 - Long as thine Art shall love true love, Long as thy Science truth shall know, Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove, Long as thy Law by law shall grow, Long as thy God is God above, Thy brother every man below, So long, dear Land of all my love, Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow !
Page 232 - Morn and eve, night and day, Have I piloted your bay, Entered free and anchored fast at the foot of Solidor. Burn the fleet and ruin France? That were worse than fifty Hogues! Sirs, they know I speak the truth! Sirs, believe me there's a way! Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this Formidable...
Page 19 - Seaweed WHEN descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landward in his wrath he scourges The toiling surges, Laden with seaweed from the rocks: From Bermuda's reefs; from edges Of sunken ledges, In some far-off, bright Azore; From Bahama, and the dashing, Silver-flashing Surges of San Salvador...
Page 172 - Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Page 118 - And the poplars tall ; And the barn's brown length, and the cattle-yard, And the white horns tossing above the wall.