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English grammar exercises, by R. Morris and H.C. Bowen
English grammar exercises by R Morris and HC Bowen Author:Richard Morris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Direction.?In the following sentences the pupil is to state with regard to the phrase what he has stated in Exercise I. with regard to the word, viz. what it tel... more »ls us in the sentence, and then name its Part of Speech. Example.?" She was a goddess of the infant world." Of the infant world tells us what sort goddess, therefore it is an adjective phrase. N.B.?The pupil should notice that though a phrase may be grammatically an attribute to a word or another phrase, it may logically contain a more prominent idea. For example, in '' deep in the shady sadness of a vale," or in "a thing of beauty is a joy for ever," of a vale, and of beauty axe grammatically adjective- phrases to sadness and thing respectively, but logically they contain ideas more prominent than sadness and thing. Exercise II. State the Parts of Speech of each of the phrases printed in italics. 1. Abou Ben Adhem?may his tribe increase !? Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the twilight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel. 2. It came again with a great wakening light. 3. The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways. 4. It is not poetry at all. 5. It can be understood only when heard. 6. For Love is blind but with the fleshly eye. 7. Little Ellie, with her smile Not yet ended, rose up gaily. 8. It is a thing to walk with. 9. Who sang cheerly all day long. 10. The clock struck the hour for retiring. 11. We steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead. 12. We buried him darkly at dead of night. 13. Look on all these living pages of God's book. 14. Rushed to battle, fought, and died. 15. Resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. 16. I kneel here for thy grace. 17. He shall love me without guile. 18. And children ...« less