Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composition

Joseph was Jacob's favorite. Wore fine garments. One day was sent to inquire after the other sons. They were at a distance, tending the flocks. Joseph used to dream. They saw hi...

- The heavy horizontal line (for the main clause) is formed with equals signs (==). - Other solid vertical lines are formed with minus signs (--). - Diagonal lines are formed wi...

+The Author's Style+.--This selection we may call +Narrative+, though there are descriptive touches in it. It is a story of what? Is the story clearly told throughout? If not, w...

24. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by...

_Lesson_ 118.--How is gender in grammar important? When is the pronoun of the masculine gender used? When is the neuter pronoun _it_ used? By the aid of what pronouns are inanim...

+Caution+.--A conditional or a concessive clause takes a verb in the indicative mode when the action or being is assumed as a fact, or when the uncertainty lies merely in the sp...

TO THE TEACHER.--It will be found profitable for pupils to break up for themselves into short sentences model selections from classic English, and, after examining the structure...

1. James's son, Charles I., before the breath was out of his body was proclaimed king in his stead. 2. He told the coachman that he would be the death of him, if he did not take...

4. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord. 5. We require clothing in the summer to protect the body from the heat of the sun. 6. Rip Van Winkle could not account for ev...

+Introductory Hints+.--You learned in Lesson 28 that in saying _Washington captured_ we do not fully express the act performed. Adding _Cornwallis_, we complete the predicate by...

Jack was rude to Tom, and always knocked off his hat when he met him. To lie is cowardly, and every boy should know it. Daniel and his companions were fed on pulse, which was to...

2. That the same word is used for the soul of man and for a glass of gin is singular. 3. "What have I done?" is asked by the knave and the thief. 4. Who was the discoverer of Am...

+Introductory Hints+.--_Sun and moon and stars_ obey. Peter the Great went _to Holland, to England_, and _to France_. _I came, I saw, I conquered_. Here we have co-ordinate word...

1. A dainty plant is the ivy green. 2. Feet was I to the lame. 3. A mighty man is he. 4. As a mark of respect was the present given. 5. A giant towered he among men.

+Exceptions.+--The _e_ is retained (1) after _c_ and _g_ when the suffix begins with _a_ or _o_; as, _peaceable, changeable;_ (2) after _o;_ as, _hoeing;_ and (3) when it is nee...

+Remark+.--The names of objects distinguished for size, power, or sublimity are regarded as masculine; and the names of those distinguished for grace, beauty, gentleness, or pro...

+Correction+.--This is ambiguous, as it may mean either that the writer is not doubted because he is a scholar, or that the writer's scholarship is not doubted. It should be, _T...

+Introductory Hints+.--The stars look down upon the roofs of the living _and_ upon the graves of the dead, _but neither_ the living _nor_ the dead are conscious of their gaze. H...

+Remark.+--Notice that _is, was_, and _has_ are used with nouns naming one thing, and with the pronouns _he, she_, and _it_; and that _are, were_, and _have_ are used with nouns...

1. _That which_ is seen is temporal. 2. _What_ God hath joined together let not man put asunder. 3. _Whoever_ lives a pious life blesses his race. 4. _Whatever_ we do has an inf...

The consonants in column 1 represent the sounds made by the obstructed voice; those in column 2, except _h_ (which represents a mere forcible breathing), represent those made by...

+Explanation+.--The line standing for the attribute complement is, like the object line, a continuation of the predicate line; but notice that the line which separates the incom...

Others call these words _Gerunds_. A gerund in Latin is a simple form of the verb in the active voice, never found in the nominative, and never in the accusative (objective) aft...

+Introductory Hints.+--_Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth reigned in England._ The three words _Edward, Mary,_ and _Elizabeth_ have the same predicate--the same act being asserted of...

We cannot see that _to_ is a part of the verb, for it in no way affects the meaning, as does an auxiliary, or as does the to in He was spoken to. Those who call it a part of the...

+Introductory Hints+.--You have learned that two words may express a thought, and that the thought may be varied by adding modifying words. You are now to learn that the meaning...

Study literature, primarily, for the thoughts it contains. Attend to these thoughts until you understand them and see their connection one with another. Accept only such as seem...

Strong verbs form their past tense by changing the vowel of the present without adding anything; weak verbs form their past tense by adding _ed, d,_ or _t._ Some weak verbs chan...

_0_ and _oh_ distinguished +Object+ and +Object Complement+ distinguished +Object+, indirect +Object+, indirect, made subject +Object Complement+ becoming subject compound defin...