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... antecedent is uncertain ; as , John said to his friend that he would soon receive a promotion . Here you cannot tell whether it is John or his friend that is to be promoted . The sentence would be clearer if it said , John said to his ...
... antecedent is uncertain ; as , John said to his friend that he would soon receive a promotion . Here you cannot tell whether it is John or his friend that is to be promoted . The sentence would be clearer if it said , John said to his ...
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... antecedent of the relative pronoun which introduces the clause . My mother left the umbrella in the street - car , which she bought for my sister . To be clear , this should read , My mother left the umbrella which she bought for my ...
... antecedent of the relative pronoun which introduces the clause . My mother left the umbrella in the street - car , which she bought for my sister . To be clear , this should read , My mother left the umbrella which she bought for my ...
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... Antecedent . The noun or substantive for which the pronoun stands is called its antecedent . The pronoun is said to agree with this antecedent in person , gender , and number , but its case depends on its use in the sentence in which it ...
... Antecedent . The noun or substantive for which the pronoun stands is called its antecedent . The pronoun is said to agree with this antecedent in person , gender , and number , but its case depends on its use in the sentence in which it ...
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... Antecedent . Errors are frequently caused by the use of the wrong antecedent . The rule is that the pronoun refers for its antecedent to the nearest noun which has been previously mentioned . If you use too many pronouns , it will be ...
... Antecedent . Errors are frequently caused by the use of the wrong antecedent . The rule is that the pronoun refers for its antecedent to the nearest noun which has been previously mentioned . If you use too many pronouns , it will be ...
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... use of the possessive in expressions like , I had not heard of his coming . Do not use the objective . 10. Make the pronoun agree with its antecedent in number . The ear often deceives us as to which word is Pronouns 295.
... use of the possessive in expressions like , I had not heard of his coming . Do not use the objective . 10. Make the pronoun agree with its antecedent in number . The ear often deceives us as to which word is Pronouns 295.
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Page 247 - Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door, Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: This it is and nothing more.
Page 97 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 165 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Page 78 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 61 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, $ Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...
Page 95 - The Pilgrim's Progress, In The Similitude Of A Dream AS I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a Dream.
Page 244 - Oh ! young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 134 - The bride kissed the goblet, the knight took it up ; He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup ; She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
Page 34 - I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses; I linger by my shingly bars; I loiter round my cresses; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river: For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 259 - I'm the chief of Ulva's isle, And this, Lord Ullin's daughter. 'And fast before her father's men Three days we've fled together, For should he find us in the glen, My blood would stain the heather. 'His horsemen hard behind us ride — Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride When they have slain her lover?