A Treatise on the Grammatical Analysis of Sentences, EtcManchester, 1885 - 61 pages |
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adjective sentence qualifying adverbial sentence ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES astronomy Attributes to Subject Cæsar became called chapter closely pursued co-ord co-ordinate sentences Comp Complement of Predicate complete complex sentence compound predicate Connective consists dative Deansgate and Ridgefield elements elliptical sentences equivalent expression Extension of Predicate foolish gave hunters imperative mood incomplete predicate indirect object JOHN HEYWOOD'S John the better leader lesson lived LONDON UNIVERSITY manner modifying the adjective noble stag noun or pronoun noun phrase noun sentence omitted by junior passed the place passive phrase in apposition phrase in italics Pred Predicate Ext Predicate Object preposition principal predicate principal sentence relation relative adverb relative pronoun Scale Drawing seen Sent sentence is analysed similar sometimes spoke stag of considerable stand in apposition stole my purse stole trash story is true student Subject Attributes Subject Predicate Extension subordinate sentence stands supplied taught tence thou told transitive verb walk
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Page 60 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 59 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 60 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 60 - I pant for the music which is divine, My heart in its thirst is a dying flower; Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine, Loosen the notes in a silver shower; Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain, I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.
Page 60 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 61 - We never in the moral way applaud or blame either ourselves or others for what we enjoy or what we suffer, or for having impressions made upon us which we consider as altogether out of our power : but only for what we do, or would have done had it been in our power, or for what we leave undone which we might have done.
Page 60 - And, just prepared to strike, repressed his hand. He rolled his eyes, and every moment felt His manly soul with more compassion melt; When, casting down a casual glance, he spied The golden belt that glittered on his side, The fatal spoil which haughty Turnus tore From dying Pallas, and in triumph wore. Then roused anew to wrath, he loudly cries (Flames, while he spoke, came flashing from his eyes), ' Traitor ! dost thou, dost thou to grace pretend, Clad, as thou art, in trophies of my friend?
Page 42 - Besides, this is overlooked by rapid and superficial readers — that the best way of reading books with rapidity is to acquire that habit of severe attention to what they contain, that perpetually confines the mind to the single object it has in view. When you have read enough to have acquired the habit of reading without suffering your mind to wander, and when you can bring to bear upon your subject a great share of previous knowledge, you may then read with rapidity: before...