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... wish to advise - advice we have received no advise - advice from your office . 5. I have them all - all of them in my office . 6. Will you go a short distance - apiece with me ? 7. They had no right - business to go on with the work . 8 ...
... wish to advise - advice we have received no advise - advice from your office . 5. I have them all - all of them in my office . 6. Will you go a short distance - apiece with me ? 7. They had no right - business to go on with the work . 8 ...
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... wish to state that we cannot accept I wish to say that we cannot accept your prices . your prices . To " state " a thing is to present it in a concise , formal way . A lawyer " states " his case to the court . Suspicioned - suspected ...
... wish to state that we cannot accept I wish to say that we cannot accept your prices . your prices . To " state " a thing is to present it in a concise , formal way . A lawyer " states " his case to the court . Suspicioned - suspected ...
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... wish to pay . 6. Will you please back - direct this letter for me ? 7. I intend - calculate to begin work to - morrow . 8. I shall use no more money than I can help - is necessary . 9. We carry — keep a large stock of these goods . 10 ...
... wish to pay . 6. Will you please back - direct this letter for me ? 7. I intend - calculate to begin work to - morrow . 8. I shall use no more money than I can help - is necessary . 9. We carry — keep a large stock of these goods . 10 ...
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... wish a two story porch front brick dwelling . 15. Please send us one hoop of fall made cheese . 16. The schedule provides for an increase in the salary now paid first year teachers . 17. Ten point type is to be used for the first eight ...
... wish a two story porch front brick dwelling . 15. Please send us one hoop of fall made cheese . 16. The schedule provides for an increase in the salary now paid first year teachers . 17. Ten point type is to be used for the first eight ...
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... wish to conform 42. He is conversant 43. The butter tastes water daily . our request . our custom , we will ship you the goods . the law . brass . teaching it . SINGULAR FOREIGN PLURAL gymnasium medium memorandum phenomenon rostrum ...
... wish to conform 42. He is conversant 43. The butter tastes water daily . our request . our custom , we will ship you the goods . the law . brass . teaching it . SINGULAR FOREIGN PLURAL gymnasium medium memorandum phenomenon rostrum ...
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Common terms and phrases
action adjective adverb are-is blank spaces boys Chicago clause comma complement complimentary close compound sentences conjunction containing a noun Dear Sir DECLENSION Deduct six Deduct three deer amends denotes English ENGLISH PLURAL error exclamation point EXERCISE express finite verb following sentences foregoing sentences Future Perfect Tense gender Grade Grammar has-have he-him inclosed within quotation INDICATIVE MODE infinitive Insert interrogation point is-are italicized John LESSON means MODE Present Tense modified Name nominative noun or pronoun object paragraph PARTICIPIAL MODE Past Perfect Tense Past Tense Perfect Participle PLURAL position possessive POTENTIAL MODE predicate preposition Present Perfect Tense president punctuation quotation marks rain respectfully RULE seen Past semicolon sentence containing she-her signifies speaker stenographer SUBJUNCTIVE teacher things thou thought tion to-day to-morrow transitive verb truly usually was-were who-whom wish words Write a sentence yesterday
Popular passages
Page 213 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Page 223 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
Page 11 - Read no letters, books, or papers in company ; but, when there is a necessity for doing it, you must ask leave.
Page 224 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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Page 97 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Page 237 - And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me, I would be absolute; and who but I : now, he that is absolute, can do what he likes ; he that can do what he likes, can take his pleasure ; he that can take his pleasure, can be content ; and he that can be content, has no more to desire ; so the...
Page 223 - Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain, wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep, there is exhibited, in its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens.