Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Alonzo Reed;Brainerd Kellogg
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We shall go to Saratoga _and_ to Niagara. They may connect _clauses_, that is, expressions that, standing alone, would be sentences; as, He must increase, _but_ I must decrease. +DEFINITION.--A _Conjunction_, is a word used to connect words, phrases, or clauses+. The +_Interjection_+ is the eighth and last _part of speech_. Interjections are mere exclamations, and are without grammatical relation to any other word in the sentence. +DEFINITION.--An _Interjection_ is a word used to express strong or sudden feeling+. Examples:-- Bravo! hurrah! pish! hush! ha, ha! alas! hail! lo! pshaw! Analyze and parse the following sentences. +Model+.--_Hurrah! that cool and fearless fireman has rushed into the house and up the burning stairs_. Hurrah |
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