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Analyze antecedent apostrophe appositive assertion attribute auxiliaries beautiful birds called child comma complement conjugation Conjunctive Adverb conjunctive pronoun connects consonant coördinate copulative declarative sentence denote DERIVATIVES continued direct object driven driving driven driving driven driving English words Examples Exercise express following nouns following sentences Future Perfect Tense Future Tense give group of words Indicative Mode infinitive inflection Interrogative Pronoun intransitive kind language learned letter meaning moved You moved noun clause noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns object passive form passive voice Past Perfect Tense Past Tense Perf perfect participle Perfect Tense sign person or thing personal pronouns phrase plural Point prefix preposition Present Perfect Tense Present Tense pupils quotation Review Lesson root simple sing singular number sometimes sound speech subject and predicate subjunctive mode suffix syllable tell tences thee thine thou tive transitive verb verb-phrase verbal adjective verbal noun vowel write
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Page 31 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought...
Page 173 - And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand.
Page 56 - THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 31 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
Page 174 - Over the basement below protected and shaded the door-way. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village street, and gilded the vanes on the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens.
Page 272 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Page 179 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 274 - THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears.
Page 272 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 33 - Douglas' head ! And, first, I tell thee, haughty peer, He who does England's message here, Although the meanest in her state, May well, proud Angus, be thy mate ! "And, Douglas, more I tell thee here...