English Grammar on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently Adopted in Germany and Switzerland, Designed for Schools and AcademiesSpalding & Storrs, 1840 - 192 Seiten |
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... notes the person spoken of - SINGULAR NUMBER ; it implies but one -- and in the NOMINATIVE CASE ; it denotes the agent― " Nom . he ” -nominative case to may return , by RULE VI . The nominative case governs the verb . May return is a ...
... notes the person spoken of - SINGULAR NUMBER ; it implies but one -- and in the NOMINATIVE CASE ; it denotes the agent― " Nom . he ” -nominative case to may return , by RULE VI . The nominative case governs the verb . May return is a ...
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... , more wisely , Justly , less justly , Badly , or ill , worse , Superlative , oftenest . most . hest . soonest . most justly . most wisely . least justly . worst . 238. Note . - Adverbs , though very numerous , ADVERBS .
... , more wisely , Justly , less justly , Badly , or ill , worse , Superlative , oftenest . most . hest . soonest . most justly . most wisely . least justly . worst . 238. Note . - Adverbs , though very numerous , ADVERBS .
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... Note . - Adverbs , though very numerous , may nevertheless be reduced to a few classes . You will now read with attention the following list , and I will then ask you Bome questions respecting each class . 1. Of number : as , “ Once ...
... Note . - Adverbs , though very numerous , may nevertheless be reduced to a few classes . You will now read with attention the following list , and I will then ask you Bome questions respecting each class . 1. Of number : as , “ Once ...
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... NOTE I. Adjective pronouns and numerals must agree in number with the nouns to which they belong . Why is it so ... note do you apply in parsing ad jective pronouns ? NOTE I. ( 1. ) So called from distribute , to divide among several ...
... NOTE I. Adjective pronouns and numerals must agree in number with the nouns to which they belong . Why is it so ... note do you apply in parsing ad jective pronouns ? NOTE I. ( 1. ) So called from distribute , to divide among several ...
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... NOTE I. 66 Two is a NUMERAL ADJECTIVE , and belongs to books , by NOTE I. Books , belong , & c . are parsed as before . EXERCISES IN PARSING CONTINUED . Every man performs his part in creation . " " Each man arrived at his station ...
... NOTE I. 66 Two is a NUMERAL ADJECTIVE , and belongs to books , by NOTE I. Books , belong , & c . are parsed as before . EXERCISES IN PARSING CONTINUED . Every man performs his part in creation . " " Each man arrived at his station ...
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according to RULE active verb adjective pronoun adverb agrees applied auxiliaries auxiliary verbs better called comma common noun compound conjugate conjunction connected Corresponding with Murray's defective verb definite article denote ellipsis EXERCISES IN PARSING EXERCISES IN SYNTAX following sentences future tense genitive Give an example governed happy imperative mood imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood interjection intransitive James John king loved manner means Murray's Grammar neuter verb nominative Note number and person objective PARSED AND CORRECTED passive verb Perf perfect participle personal pronoun phrase PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive potential mood preposition Pres present tense relative pronoun repeat RULE VI RULE VII Rule XV second future second person sense signifies sing singular number sometimes speak subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllable SYNTAX CONTINUED tence thing Thou art tion tive transitive verbs virtue vowel William wise word wouldst write written
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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 179 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty ; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Seite 185 - We have the power of retaining those images which we have once received; and of altering and compounding them into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Seite 31 - Perfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been, 1. We have been, 2. Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been ; 3. They have been. Pluperfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I had been, 1. We had been, 2.
Seite 157 - to write" was then present to me, and must still be considered as present, when I bring back that time, and the thoughts of it. It ought, therefore, to be, " The last week I intended to write.
Seite 185 - 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 102 - RULE II. Two or more nouns, fyc. in the singular number, joined together by a copulative conjunction, expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number: as " Socrates and Plato were wise; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece;" " The sun that rolls over our heads, the food that we receive, the rest that we enjoy, daily admonish us of a superior and superintending Power.
Seite 51 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Seite 118 - A syllable is a sound either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word ; as, a, an, ant. Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables; or of expressing a word by its proper letters.* WORDS.
Seite 163 - Much was believed, but little understood, And to be dull was construed to be good; 690 A second deluge learning thus o'er-run, And the monks finished what the Goths begun.