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Hints and helps on English grammar; A discussion of difficulties found in hard sentences. For the use of private students and teachers of English grammar - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...the infinitive attribute. Perhaps even our sins is equivalent to perhaps even our sins are permitted to be, etc., in which perhaps and even modify are permitted to be. 188--19. Even if his criticism had been uniformly indulgent, the position of the nobles and leading citizens, thus subjected to constant but secret superintendence, would have been too galling to be tolerated. Even and uniformly modify indulgent. The subordinate clause, if his criticism, etc, modifies would have been galling. Position is the subject of the main clause. Subjected, a participle, modifies nobles and citizens. Thus, an adverb, modifies subjected. But connects constant and secret. To be tolerated modifies too. 188--20. No axe had leveled the giant progeny of the crowded groves, in which the fantastic forms of withered limbs, that had been blasted and riven by lightning, contrasted strangely with the verdant freshness of a younger growth of branches. In which modifies contrasted. 188--21. The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge of the level ocean, and gilding the accumulation of clouds through which he. had traveled the livelong day, and which now assembled on all sides, like misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch. Was resting and (was) gilding is the compound predicate. Through which modifies had traveled. A preposition is understood before day. Which now assembled, etc., refers to clouds. Like is a conjunctive adverb, introducing the clause, misfortunes and disasters (assemble) etc. 189--22. It is, therefore, a certain and a very curious fact, that the representative, at this time, of any great Whig family, who probably imagines that he is treading in the footsteps of his forefathers, in reality, while adhering to their party names, is a...
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