College English Grammar

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Johnson Publishing Company, 1925 - 414 страница
 

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Страница 334 - ... things under the silky fur. His great chest was low to the ground, his head forward and down, while his feet were flying like mad, the claws scarring the hard-packed snow in parallel grooves. The sled swayed and trembled, half-started forward. One of his feet slipped, and one man groaned aloud. Then the sled lurched ahead in what appeared a rapid succession of jerks, though it never really came to a dead stop again.
Страница 22 - An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Страница 311 - Cranford ladies, and send notes of invitation all round for a small party on the following Tuesday. Mr. Mulliner himself brought them round. He would always ignore the fact of there being a back-door to any house, and gave a louder rat-tat than his mistress, Mrs. Jamieson. He had three little notes, which he carried in a large basket, in order to impress his mistress with an idea of their great weight, though they might easily have gone into his waistcoat pocket. Miss Matty and I quietly decided...
Страница 203 - I don't want to undervalue your science, Mr. Langdon. There are things I never learned, because they came in after my day, and i am very glad to send my patients to those that do know them, when I am at fault; but I know these people about here, fathers and mothers, and children and grandchildren, so as all the science in the world can't know them, without it takes...
Страница 97 - And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. 32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God...
Страница 116 - ... we, you, they, was.' But also the older literary usage of employing in the second person was for reference to one and were for more than one occurs here: you was (sing.), you were (pi.). 2. If the subject is plural, or if there are several subjects, the verb is plural: 'The boys in our class are more numerous than the girls.' 'A strong wind and a full sail bring joy to the sailor.
Страница 119 - Sacred and profane wisdom agree in declaring that pride goeth before a fall. The abstract subject here retains its singular form since as an abstract noun it cannot take a plural. 4. After the group "more than" there is a difference of usage according to the meaning. The usual form of expression is the singular verb since more than is...
Страница 289 - He hoisted it on to the vehicle, which was a sort of car, and then I got in; before he shut me up, I asked him how far it was to Thornfield. "A matter of six miles.
Страница 91 - I have been, thou hast been, he has been; we have been, you have been, they have been.
Страница 25 - No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.

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