Ross's Business English: A Treatise on English as it is Used in Modern Business : for Use in Commercial Departments of Private and Public SchoolsSouth-Western Publishing Company, 1917 - 287 頁 |
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abbreviation action adjectives modify adverb antecedent Brown called can-may collective noun complete complimentary close compound sentence conjunctions connected correct Dear Sir denotes enclosed English Example exclamation point Exercise express following sentences gender give good-well grammar has-have he-him him-he his-their hyphen I-me improper italicized words in-into infinitive Insert interest interrogation interrogation points intransitive is-are is—are its—their John lady LESSON look never noun or pronoun object Ohio omitting the improper paragraph passive voice perfect participle person phrases plural possessive predicate noun preposition present punctuation pupils quotation real-very relative clause reply Reverend rule salutation semicolon she-her ship singular speak speech Star Brand statement stenographer street student teacher telegram tell tense they-them things thought transitive verb truly usually verbal noun was—were we-us who-whom Write the following written
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第 168 頁 - I chatter, chatter, as I flow to join the brimming river; for men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever.
第 176 頁 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
第 217 頁 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
第 210 頁 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
第 176 頁 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail...
第 208 頁 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
第 2 頁 - The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
第 184 頁 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
第 1 頁 - Nouns. A Proper Noun is the name of a particular person, place, or thing. A...
第 184 頁 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.