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English in Business: For Students in Commercial and General Secondary Schools Dudley Howe Miles Visualització completa - 1920 |
English in Business: For Students in Commercial and General Secondary Schools Dudley Howe Miles Visualització completa - 1920 |
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adding machine adjective adverb advertisement American League arrangement attention bank beginning business letters called cents certified check CHAPTER classmate clear clerk comma Company complimentary close correspondence Dear Sir dependent clause Diamond Sparkle DOLLARS enclosed envelope example Exercise explain express favor filing firm folder give head-lines high school I-me ideas inside address interest kind League of Nations Let the class look machine matter means ment modify never noun paper paragraph past perfect payment person phrase position preposition pronoun punctuation pupil purchase questions reader received refer relative pronouns reply request salesman sell sent statement stenographer subordinating conjunctions sure talk teacher tence tense thought tion topic truly typewriter verb Wear-Well wish words Write written
Passatges populars
Pàgina 382 - Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel; as, begin, beginning; run, running; put, putting; shop, shopping; prefer, preferred.
Pàgina 95 - I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal. This country would not amount to as much as it does if the young men of fifty years ago had been afraid that they might earn more than they were paid for.
Pàgina 411 - ve been!' Sweat stood for an instant on his brow, and was gone in the steady onrush of the wind. The man lying on the cot in the shelter of the cabin companionway made no sound all the while. He might have been asleep or dead, he remained so quiet; yet he was neither asleep nor dead, for his eyes, large, wasted, and luminous, gazed out unwinking from the little darkness of his shelter into the vaster darkness of the night, where a star burned in slow mutations, now high, now sailing low, over the...
Pàgina 411 - She looks only about forty of her sixty years — a woman who seems to have taken life as something that is always good. Evil and Germans seem never to have entered her door. Then I remembered what this woman had done ; how all France is talking about her and is proud of her. How the President of the Republic went to the little, ruined city, accompanied by the Presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, and a great military entourage, just to hang the jeweled cross of the Legion of Honor...
Pàgina 95 - I am not against the eight-hour day, or any other thing that protects labor from exploitation at the hands of ruthless employers, but it makes me sad to see young Americans shackle their abilities by blindly conforming with rules which force the industrious man to keep step with the shirker.
Pàgina 424 - Ga. (Georgia) 111. (Illinois) Ind. (Indiana) Kan. (Kansas) Ky. (Kentucky) La. (Louisiana) Mass. (Massachusetts) Md. (Maryland) Me. (Maine) Mich. (Michigan) Minn. (Minnesota) Miss. (Mississippi) Mo. (Missouri) Mont. (Montana) NC (North Carolina) ND (North Dakota) Neb.
Pàgina 424 - Oregon. Pa., Pennsylvania. RI, Rhode Island. SC, South Carolina. S. Dak., South Dakota. Tenn., Tennessee. Tex., Texas. Vt., Vermont. Va., Virginia. Wash., Washington. W. Va., West Virginia. Wis., Wisconsin. Wyo., Wyoming.
Pàgina 381 - Verbs ending in -c-er and -c-ir, when c is preceded by a consonant, change c to z before a or o in order to preserve the soft sound of c. In this and in the three classes following, the change occurs in the first singular present indicative, and throughout the present subjunctive, the only forms having endings beginning with a or o. Veneer, to conquer: Pres. Indie, ist sing.: venzo.
Pàgina 381 - Words ending \ny preceded by a consonant generally change y to i before a suffix beginning with any. other letter than i.
Pàgina 314 - The old fireplace was bricked up and plastered — the fireplace beside which in the far-off days he had lain on winter nights, to hear his uncles tell tales of hunting, or to hear them play the violin, great dreaming giants that they were. The old woman went out and left him sitting there, the centre of a swarm of memories coming and going like so many ghostly birds and butterflies. A curious heartache and listlessness, a nerveless mood came on him. What was it worth, anyhow — success ? Struggle...