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"A work on english grammar and composition"


7. The longest life is but a day.
8. What if the bee love not these barren boughs?
9. That life is long which answers life's great end.
10. What! I the weaker vessel?
11. Whom should I obey but thee?
12 What by industry and what by economy, he had amassed a fortune.
13. I long ago found that out.
14. One should not always eat what he likes.
15. There's not a white hair on your face but should have its effect of
gravity.
16. It was a look that, but for its quiet, would have seemed disdain.
17. He came but to return.
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LESSON 110.
REVIEW QUESTIONS.
_Lesson_ 85.--Define a noun. What is the distinction between a common and a
proper noun? Why is _music_ a common noun? What is a collective noun? An
abstract noun? Define a pronoun. What are the classes of pronouns? Define
them. What is an antecedent?
_Lesson_ 86.--Give and illustrate the Cautions respecting _he_, _it_, and
_they_; the needless use of pronouns; the two styles of the pronoun; the
use of _them_ for _those_, and of _what_ for _that_; and the use of _who_,
_which_, _that_, and _what_.
_Lesson_ 87.--Give and illustrate the Cautions respecting connected
relative clauses; the relative in clauses not restrictive; the use of
_that_ instead of _who_ or _which_; the position of the relative clause;
and the use of _this_ and _that_, _the one_ and _the other_.


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