A Grammar of Late Modern English, for the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, StudentsP. Noordhoff, 1926 |
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adjectival adjectival participle adjective adnominal adjunct adverb adverbial adjunct appears auxiliaries BRONTË Christm clauses cognate object combinations Compare connexion construction copula dare denoting DICK distinctly durative Dutch E. F. BENSON ELIOT examples Expanded Form express Fair following quotations frequent function GALSW GASK gerund grammatical group-verb Guard HARDY head-sentence Hist illustration indicated infinitive inflectional instances intransitive JANE AUSTEN language latter LYTTON Manch meaning modified mood N. E. Gr never Note notion noun of action observed ordinary passive conversion passive voice past participle Pend person phrases Pickw practically preceding predicate preposition prepositional object present participle preterite reflexive pronoun reflexive voice SCOTT seems sentence SHAK SHER Shirley sometimes speaker stand STOF subjunctive SWEET TEMPLE THURSTON tense THACK thing thou thought time-sphere transitive transitive verb verb verbal VIII Westm word word-group XVIII
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Page 73 - The vile strength he wields | For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, | Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, | And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray | And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies | His petty hope in some near port or bay, | And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay.
Page 343 - in: The cock is crowing, | The stream is flowing. | The small birds twitter, | The lake doth glitter, | The green fields sleep in the sun; | The oldest and youngest | Are at work with the strongest, | The cattle are grazing, | Their heads never raising; | They are forty feeding like one.
Page 268 - And, when there came a pause | Of silence, such as baffled his best skill:! Then sometimes in that silence, while he hung | Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise | Has carried far into his heart the voice | Of mountaintorrents. WORDSWORTH, There was a boy,
Page 691 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, | Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, | The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, | The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day | Battle's magnificently stern array I
Page 517 - Madding Crowd, Ch. XV, 117. Similarly in: All round the present town the ruins of Kilkenny's former greatness testify to the decay. Nothing doing. Eng. Rev., No. 106, 273. b) when used in the function of nominal part of the predicate. Well, my lord: | If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing, | And 'scape
Page 244 - send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify, and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues
Page 405 - By heaven 1 had rather coin my heart, | And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring | From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash | By any indirection. SHAK.,
Page 218 - Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew
Page 327 - Hardly less unusual is the use of the Expanded Form in the present participle and the gerund. The following are the only instances that have come to hand: i. I have a kinsman who | Is bound for Italy; he embark'd at Milford; | To whom being going, almost spent with hunger, | 1 am fall'n in this offence.
Page 304 - I. Ch. Ill, 16. (principal notion: had their eyes lifted.) to lose: I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises. SHAK., Ham