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John Morrow · 1905 · Scanned text · Free in the US

92,693 words · about 6 h 29 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1905, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/06001039); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
John Morrow
Language
English
Published
1905
Length
92,693 words · about 6 h 29 min
Sections
10 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (10)
  1. Front matter about 3 min
  2. Part I under 1 min
  3. Part II under 1 min
  4. Part III about 1 min
  5. Part I about 1 h 30 min
  6. Part II about 1 min
  7. I. The trees are about 1 h 32 min
  8. Part III about 23 min
  9. II. Objective about 2 h 48 min
  10. Index about 12 min
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Front matter

ADVANCED

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Class _P

Part I

I. Grammar.

The Sentence and its Elements. Words and their Uses in the Sentence. pages

The Sentence (Classified by Use) 7-10

Independent Elements 15, 19

Words in Apposition 20

Modifiers 33

Phrase Modifiers . 37

II. Composition.

Narratives and Letters. Acts that Show Character.

Punctuation.

"How to Write" 49

Suggestions in Literature 64

Telegrams 80

Part II

I. Grammar.

The Sentence and its Elements (Continued).

Complements, Phrases, and Clauses.

The Indirect Object 94

Infinitives and Participles 96-105

The Simple Sentence 118

The Complex Sentence 120

The Compound Sentence 122-126

Summary of the Sentence , . 126-130

II. Composition.

Acts that Show Feeling. Punctuation.

Suggestion of Feelings 131-134

Postal Cards 138, 144

6 CONTENTS

Part III

I. Grammar.

The Parts of Speech. Their Classification, Inflections, and Relations. pages

The Preposition 284-287

The Conjunction 287-290

Words Variously Used 290-294

II. Composition.

Details that Picture. Miscellany.

Practical Descriptions 296

Bills and Receipts . 300

The Pronoun : Some Dangers 304

The Letter of Introduction 307

Note of Invitation 312

Suggestive Words 3 T 4-3i9

Persuasive Writing 323, 324

A Diary 323

Advertisements 325

Principles of Composition 327

Selections from Literature.

A Kind Act (School Work) . . 50 (Riis) 148

Wading the Tweed (Taylor) . . 50 A Pleasant Room (Alcott) . . . 160

Letter (Lowell) 52 The Other Fellow (William Haw-

A Sudden Shower (Riley) ... 54 ley Smith) 166

Letter (Macaulay) 56 The Eel Trap 296

better (Stevenson) 58 Leaving the Old Home (Lucy

Three Boys and a Dog (School Larcom) ........ 297

Work) 62 Joyous Days 302

Oliver Horn(F. Hopkinson Smith) 65 The Den (Alcott) 305

A Gentleman (Lucy Larcom) . . 74 Snaring Fish (Warner) .... 306

The Foreign Gentleman (Alcott) 79 A Night Afield (Hamlin Garland) 309

A Boy's Song (James Hogg) . . 85 Winter (Shakespeare) .... 313

Heavy Hearts (Alcott) .... 131 A New England Scene (F. Hop-

Merton's Promise 132 kinson Smith) 314

The Rescue 135 Seadrift (Aldrich) 318

Driving Home the Cows (Kate What the Long Night Said (du

Putnam Osgood) 139 Chaillu) 322

How I Made an Anchor . . . . 144 The Boy to the Schoolmaster

The Heroism of John Binns (Edward J. Wheeler) .... 325

Index 330

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