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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... denote ? 8. The singular number denotes but one thing . Q. Of what number is book , and why ? ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ...
... denote ? 8. The singular number denotes but one thing . Q. Of what number is book , and why ? ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ...
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... denote ? 57. The objective case denotes the object . Q. When I say , William whips John , " in what case is John , and why ? 58. In the objective case , because John is the ob- jeet . Q. What does the word possessive imply ? 59 ...
... denote ? 57. The objective case denotes the object . Q. When I say , William whips John , " in what case is John , and why ? 58. In the objective case , because John is the ob- jeet . Q. What does the word possessive imply ? 59 ...
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... denotes a higher degree of excellence than the other ? 99. The word better . Q. What degree of comparison , then , shall we call better ? 100. Comparative degree . Q. What , then , docs the comparative degree imply ? 101. A comparison ...
... denotes a higher degree of excellence than the other ? 99. The word better . Q. What degree of comparison , then , shall we call better ? 100. Comparative degree . Q. What , then , docs the comparative degree imply ? 101. A comparison ...
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... denoted by brats , and is , therefore , in the objective case : what , then , will be a good rule for the objective case after active verbs ? RULA VÍII . Active - transitive verbs govern the objective case . Q. I will now give you the ...
... denoted by brats , and is , therefore , in the objective case : what , then , will be a good rule for the objective case after active verbs ? RULA VÍII . Active - transitive verbs govern the objective case . Q. I will now give you the ...
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... denotes the same person , ( the first ) -FIRST PERSON ; it denotes the speaker - SINGULAR NUMBER ; it means but one— “ Nom . I ” —made in the NOMINATIVE CASE to study , according to RULE VI . The nominative case governs the verb in num ...
... denotes the same person , ( the first ) -FIRST PERSON ; it denotes the speaker - SINGULAR NUMBER ; it means but one— “ Nom . I ” —made in the NOMINATIVE CASE to study , according to RULE VI . The nominative case governs the verb in num ...
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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.