The English Language: Its Grammatical and Logical PrinciplesHoughton, Osgood and Company, 1879 - 347 pages |
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The English Language: Its Grammatical and Logical Principles Harris Ray Greene No preview available - 2017 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjective adjective-term Adjunc adjunctive adverb-term antecedent appositive Arabian horses asked base beautiful Bible bird Cæsar CHAPTER CLAUSE-FORM cold command Comp complement term complex compound confound Conj conjunctive clause connective constitute CONSTRUCTION coördinates copula demonstrative clause denotes Obj Desig direct object element ellipsis elliptical enemy Equiv EXERCISE expletive expressed fact feet fought friends grammatical guilty heard hearer Hence horses idiomatic indicated infinitive clause interrogative introduced king learned lives logical MIXED FORMS modifier NOTE noun noun-terms participial clause phrase PHRASE-FORM Pred predicate preposition principal verb pronoun qualities question red roses reference relative adverb relative clause relative pronoun sailed sense Sent Sent.-f sentence sentence-form Shak simple singing snow sometimes speak spoke Subj subject term talked tences thing thou thought tion tive told true unto verb-term walk wise WORD-FORM words
Popular passages
Page 81 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts ; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history ; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill ; and there they will remain forever.
Page 149 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 319 - When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying. Have thou nothing to do with that just man : for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
Page 282 - The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Page 65 - For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man : thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow. 22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow : 23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury...
Page 343 - Whereas thou eamest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us ? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
Page 281 - Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Page 327 - We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him. The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it...
Page 47 - Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord : look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Page 274 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.