A grammar of the Italian language. [With] Key, Volume 11852 |
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abbia accented adjective adverbs affixed alcuno altri altro amare andare andate Avete aveva avuto become called casa cento ciò compound CONDITIONAL MOOD conjugated consonant côsa cotesto Count Ugolino creda credere credo datemi Décimo demonstrative pronoun dite English èssere Esso EXERCISE expletive express fare fatto feminine followed fossi fratello future Ghibelline giorno give imperative imperfect indicative infinitive irregular ITALIAN LANGUAGE joined l'uomo mangiare masculine means mezzo molto mood nominative nouns Nouns ending ogni optative mood padre past participle Pisa placed poco possessive pronouns preposition present participle preterite pronominal particles può Quale quattro rendered Ruggieri degli Ubaldini sapere second person sentire signify sometimes sound speak stato subjunctive subjunctive mood substantive superlative tempo tenses termination thee thing third person plural third person singular thou translated tutto uomo vedere verb veruno vino voglio volere vowel vuole wish words zucchero
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Page 26 - PUNCTUATION. PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses, which the sense and an accurate pronunciation require.
Page 40 - My father, why dost thou not help me?' And there he died; and, as thou seest me, I saw the three fall, one by one, between The fifth day and the sixth; whence I betook me, Already blind, to groping over each, And three days called them after they were dead; Then hunger did what sorrow could not do.
Page 26 - PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses, which the sense and an accurate pronunciation require. The Comma represents the shortest pause ; the Semicolon, a pause double that of the comma ; the Colon, double that of the semicolon ; and the Period, double that of the colon.
Page 39 - FROM the fell repast that sinner raised his mouth, wiping it upon the hair of the head he had laid waste behind. Then he began : " Thou wiliest that I renew desperate grief, which wrings my heart, even at the very thought, before I tell thereof. But if my words are to be a seed, that may bear fruit of infamy to the traitor whom I gnaw, thou shalt see me speak and weep at the same time. I know not who thou mayest be, nor by what mode thou hast come down here ; but, when I hear thee, in truth thou...
Page 26 - It is, however, very proper to begin with a capital, - • 1. The first word of every book, chapter, letter, note, or any other piece of writing. 2. The first word after a period j and, if the two sentences are totally independent, after a note of interrogation or exclamation.
Page 40 - ... and below I heard the outlet of the horrible tower locked up: whereat I looked into the faces of my sons, without uttering a word. I did not weep: so stony grew I within; they wept; and my little Anselm said: 'Thou lookest so, father, what ails thee?
Page 26 - Tones. TONES are different both from emphasis and pauses ;* consisting in the modulation of the voice, the notes or variations of sound which we employ in the expression of our sentiments.
Page 23 - A syllable is a sound either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word ; as, a, an, ant. Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables; or of expressing a word by its proper letters.* WORDS.
Page 35 - March, the Pisans, who had imprisoned Count Ugolino with two of his sons, and two sons of his son Count Guelfo (as we have mentioned above), in a tower on the Piazza degli Anziani, caused the door of that tower to be locked up, the keys to be thrown into the Arno, and all food withheld from the said prisoners, who died of hunger in a few days. But the Count had previously kept demanding penitence with loud cries, and yet they permitted no friar or priest to confess him. All the five, when dead, were...
Page 37 - Come un poco di raggio si fu messo Nel doloroso carcere, ed io scorsi Per quattro visi il mio aspetto stesso ; Ambo le mani per dolor mi morsi. E quei, pensando ch...