A Practical Grammar of the English LanguageJohn P. Morton & Company, 1846 - Всего страниц: 254 Series title on front cover. |
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... comparative is used when the quality is represented as belonging to one of two objects , or sets of objects , in a higher degree than to the other ; as , " This apple is sweeter than that ; " " These apples are sweeter than those ...
... comparative is used when the quality is represented as belonging to one of two objects , or sets of objects , in a higher degree than to the other ; as , " This apple is sweeter than that ; " " These apples are sweeter than those ...
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... COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE . The comparative is regularly formed by adding er , and the superlative by adding est , to the posi- tive ; as , Positive . Sweet . Wise Comparative . ..sweeter . wiser .. Superlative . ..sweetest . .wisest ...
... COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE . The comparative is regularly formed by adding er , and the superlative by adding est , to the posi- tive ; as , Positive . Sweet . Wise Comparative . ..sweeter . wiser .. Superlative . ..sweetest . .wisest ...
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Noble Butler. 2. Old has , in addition to the regular comparative and superlative , elder and eldest . These are formed from eld , which is now obsolete . 3. The superlative is sometimes formed by adding most to the positive or comparative ...
Noble Butler. 2. Old has , in addition to the regular comparative and superlative , elder and eldest . These are formed from eld , which is now obsolete . 3. The superlative is sometimes formed by adding most to the positive or comparative ...
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... comparative , more vicious , superlative , most vicious ; it belongs to the noun horse . RULE II .-- Adjectives and participles belong to nouns or pronouns . Horse is a noun , etc .; in the objective case the object of the transitive ...
... comparative , more vicious , superlative , most vicious ; it belongs to the noun horse . RULE II .-- Adjectives and participles belong to nouns or pronouns . Horse is a noun , etc .; in the objective case the object of the transitive ...
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... comparative degree -- the quality is represented as belonging to one of two objects in a higher degree than to the other , etc .; it belongs to the noun room . RULE II . - Adjectives and participles belong to nouns or pronouns . PRONOUN ...
... comparative degree -- the quality is represented as belonging to one of two objects in a higher degree than to the other , etc .; it belongs to the noun room . RULE II . - Adjectives and participles belong to nouns or pronouns . PRONOUN ...
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accented action active voice adjuncts anapestic antecedent apple apposition auxiliary perfect participle beautiful Cæsar called comma common noun connected consonant correct defective verb denote dependent clause English equivalent expressed feet feminine finite verb flowers following sentences Future Perfect FUTURE PERFECT TENSE George grammatical predicate grammatical subject happy hath heaven horse imperative mood imperfect INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood interjections interrogative intransitive killed king language letter limiting adjective live loved masculine modified noun or pronoun number and person o'er object participial noun passive participle passive voice past tense pause person singular PLUPERFECT plural possessive potential mood preceding predicate nominative preposition PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE refer relative clause relative pronoun Remark Rule xii sense singular number sound subjunctive mood superlative sweet Tell thee thing third person tive transitive verb trochee virtue vowel wish words write written
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Стр. 194 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Стр. 234 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Стр. 229 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Стр. 196 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Стр. 243 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Стр. 250 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Стр. 245 - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye.
Стр. 232 - 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.
Стр. 252 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Стр. 223 - It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright...