English Grammar on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently Adopted in Germany and Switzerland : Designed for Schools and AcademiesE.H. Butler & Company, 1852 - 192 Seiten |
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... word noun mean ? Ans . The word noun means name . Q. What , then , may your name be called ? 1. A NOUN . Q. What may all names be called ? 2. Nouns . Q. Boston is the name of a place : is Boston a noun ? and if so , why ? 3. Boston is a ...
... word noun mean ? Ans . The word noun means name . Q. What , then , may your name be called ? 1. A NOUN . Q. What may all names be called ? 2. Nouns . Q. Boston is the name of a place : is Boston a noun ? and if so , why ? 3. Boston is a ...
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... word plural mean ? 10. It means more than one . Q. Of what number is lamps , and why ? 11 Lamps is of the plural ... word gender mean ? 14. Gender signifies sex . Q. What does the word masculine mean ? 15. It means male . Q. John is the ...
... word plural mean ? 10. It means more than one . Q. Of what number is lamps , and why ? 11 Lamps is of the plural ... word gender mean ? 14. Gender signifies sex . Q. What does the word masculine mean ? 15. It means male . Q. John is the ...
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... word common ; as , plaint ? " 31. Common means general . " A common com . Q. Although there are a vast many male children in the world , each one may be called by the general name of boy : what kind of a noun , then , would you call boy ...
... word common ; as , plaint ? " 31. Common means general . " A common com . Q. Although there are a vast many male children in the world , each one may be called by the general name of boy : what kind of a noun , then , would you call boy ...
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... words are the nouns in the following sen- tences ; which are proper , and which common ; also their gender and number ... word case mean ? 47. Case means condition , state , & c . Q. When I say , " Charles strikes William , 10 ENGLISH ...
... words are the nouns in the following sen- tences ; which are proper , and which common ; also their gender and number ... word case mean ? 47. Case means condition , state , & c . Q. When I say , " Charles strikes William , 10 ENGLISH ...
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... words in the same sentence . Q. What does the word nominative mean ? 49. Nominative means naming . Q. When I say , " John strikes , " he evidently does something : wnat , hen , may John be called ? 50. An actor or doer . Q. Well , then ...
... words in the same sentence . Q. What does the word nominative mean ? 49. Nominative means naming . Q. When I say , " John strikes , " he evidently does something : wnat , hen , may John be called ? 50. An actor or doer . Q. Well , then ...
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according to RULE active verb adjective pronoun adverb agrees applied auxiliaries auxiliary verbs better called comma common noun compound conjugation conjunction connected correct this sentence Corresponding with Murray's DEFECTIVE VERBS definite article denote ellipsis English EXERCISES IN PARSING EXERCISES IN SYNTAX following sentences future tense genitive gilt Give an example governed happy imperative mood imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood interjection intransitive James John king language loved means Murray's Grammar neuter verb nominative Note number and person objective PARSED AND CORRECTED passive verb Perf personal pronoun phrase PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive potential mood preposition present tense proper relative pronoun repeat RULE VII Rule XV second future second person sense signifies sing singular number sometimes subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllables SYNTAX CONTINUED tence thing Thou art tion tive transitive verbs virtue vowel William wise word wouldst write written
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Seite 126 - It must indeed be confessed, that a lampoon or a satire do not carry in them robbery or murder...
Seite 129 - And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck. And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. And he came unto his father, and said, My father.
Seite 180 - He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valour, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst...
Seite 138 - And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. 9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah. 10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne...
Seite 181 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Seite 123 - Angels, which are spirits immaterial and intellectual, the glorious inhabitants of those sacred palaces, where nothing but light and blessed immortality, no shadow of matter for tears, discontentments, griefs, and uncomfortable passions to work upon, but all joy, tranquillity, and peace, even for ever and ever doth dwell...
Seite 128 - Of this rule there are many violations to be met with ; a few of which may be sufficient to put the learner on his guard. " Each of the sexes should keep within its particular bounds, and content themselves with the advantages of their particular districts:" better thus: "The sexes should keep within their particular bounds,
Seite 163 - Their particular friends may be either ignorant, or insincere ; and the rest of the world in general is too well bred to shock them with a truth, which generally their Booksellers are the first that inform them of.
Seite 153 - On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
Seite 150 - Repenting him of his design." " The king soon found reason to repent him of his provoking such dangerous enemies." " The popular lords did not fail to enlarge themselves on the subject.