English Grammar on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently Adopted in Germany and Switzerland, Designed for Schools and AcademiesE.H.Butler & Company, 1850 - 192 Seiten |
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... be- cause it is a particular name— MASCULINE GENDER ; it is the name of a male - THIRD PERSON ; it is spoken of — SINGULAR * Refer back to this number . • NUMBER ; it . means but one- POSSESSIVE CASE 12 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... be- cause it is a particular name— MASCULINE GENDER ; it is the name of a male - THIRD PERSON ; it is spoken of — SINGULAR * Refer back to this number . • NUMBER ; it . means but one- POSSESSIVE CASE 12 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... refer to the nearest persons or things , to the most distant ; as , These gloves are superior to those . and poverty are temptations ; that tends to excite pride , this discontent . " 401. The INDEFINITE are those that refer to things ...
... refer to the nearest persons or things , to the most distant ; as , These gloves are superior to those . and poverty are temptations ; that tends to excite pride , this discontent . " 401. The INDEFINITE are those that refer to things ...
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... refers . 432. Hence it follows , that antecedent and subsequent are opposed to each other in meaning ; the former ... refer ? 431 . What is the meaning of subsequent ? 132 . Why so called ? 431 . In the phrase , “ Whom did you see ...
... refers . 432. Hence it follows , that antecedent and subsequent are opposed to each other in meaning ; the former ... refer ? 431 . What is the meaning of subsequent ? 132 . Why so called ? 431 . In the phrase , “ Whom did you see ...
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... referring to some noun in the sen- tence in which they are used ; as , " The sun is setting : " here , the partici- ple setting is said to refer to the noun sun : hence , What , then , may be regarded as a rule for the government of the ...
... referring to some noun in the sen- tence in which they are used ; as , " The sun is setting : " here , the partici- ple setting is said to refer to the noun sun : hence , What , then , may be regarded as a rule for the government of the ...
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... refer to nouns . EXERCISES IN SYNTAX . " The wind is rising . " 558. Rising is a PRESENT ACTIVE PARTICIPLE , from the irregular vero to rise · " Pres . rise ; Imp . rose ; Perf . part . risen " -and it refers to wind , according to RULE ...
... refer to nouns . EXERCISES IN SYNTAX . " The wind is rising . " 558. Rising is a PRESENT ACTIVE PARTICIPLE , from the irregular vero to rise · " Pres . rise ; Imp . rose ; Perf . part . risen " -and it refers to wind , according to RULE ...
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according to RULE active verb adjective pronoun adverb agrees auxiliaries auxiliary verbs better called comma compound conjugation conjunction connected Corresponding with Murray's defective verb denote E. H. BUTLER ellipsis English English language EXERCISES IN PARSING EXERCISES IN SYNTAX following sentences future tense Give an example governed happy imperative mood imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood interjection intransitive James John king language loved manner means Murray's Grammar neuter verb nominative Note number and person objective pages 12mo PARSED AND CORRECTED passive verb Perf personal pronoun phrase pluperfect PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive potential mood preposition present tense proper relative pronoun repeat RULE VII Rule XV Schools second future second person sense signifies sing singular number sometimes subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllable SYNTAX CONTINUED tence thing Thou art tion tive transitive verb virtue vowel William wise word wouldst write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 158 - God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Seite 146 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him four-fold. 9 And Jesus said unto him. This day is salvation come to this house, forasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
Seite 116 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Seite 131 - Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son.
Seite 118 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Seite 192 - Alas ! how different ! yet how like the same !" 3. The appellations of the Deity : as, " God, Jehovah, the Almighty, the Supreme Being, the Lord, Providence, the Messiah, the Holy Spirit." 4. Proper names of persons, places, streets, mountains, rivers, ships : as, " George, York, the Strand, the Alps, the Thames, the Seahorse.
Seite 34 - Lupin was, comforted by the mere voice and presence of such a man; and, though he had merely said 'a verb must agree with its nominative case in number and person...
Seite 161 - This rule arises from the nature and idiom of our language, and from as plain a principle as any on which it is founded ; namely, that a word which has the article before it, and the possessive preposition of after it, must be a noun : and if a noun, it ought to follow the construction of a noun, and not to have the regimen of a verb. It is the participial termination of this sort of words that is apt to deceive us, and make us treat them as if they were of an amphibious species, partly nouns and...
Seite 140 - 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 185 - ... it requires few talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire, without any great genius or study.