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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... governed , and why ? 71. By coat , because it follows William's . Q. What , then , may be considered a rule for governing the possessive case ? RULE I. The possessive case is governed by the following noun . Q. " William's hat . " Is ...
... governed , and why ? 71. By coat , because it follows William's . Q. What , then , may be considered a rule for governing the possessive case ? RULE I. The possessive case is governed by the following noun . Q. " William's hat . " Is ...
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... governed by the noun knife , accord- ing to RULE I. The possessive case is governed by the following noun . Knife is a NOUN ; it is a name - COMMON ; it is a general name - NEUTER GENDER ; it is neither male nor female- THIRD PERSON ...
... governed by the noun knife , accord- ing to RULE I. The possessive case is governed by the following noun . Knife is a NOUN ; it is a name - COMMON ; it is a general name - NEUTER GENDER ; it is neither male nor female- THIRD PERSON ...
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... be ? 123. The second person . 1. To be omitted in parsing . 2. Johnson's is governed by dictionary , bv Rule I. Q. When I say , " He ( meaning William 2 * PRONOUNS . 17 Wiser is an ADJECTIVE, a word joined with a ...
... be ? 123. The second person . 1. To be omitted in parsing . 2. Johnson's is governed by dictionary , bv Rule I. Q. When I say , " He ( meaning William 2 * PRONOUNS . 17 Wiser is an ADJECTIVE, a word joined with a ...
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... governs the verb in number and person , in what respect must the verb agree with its nominative case ? RULE VII . A ... govern the objective case . Q. I will now give you the different endings of VERBS . 21.
... governs the verb in number and person , in what respect must the verb agree with its nominative case ? RULE VII . A ... govern the objective case . Q. I will now give you the different endings of VERBS . 21.
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... governed by it , according to RULE VIII . Active - transitive verbs govern the objective case . EXERCISES IN PARSING CONTINUED . Transitive Verbs . " I lament my fate . " You regard your friends . " " We desire your improvement . " " We ...
... governed by it , according to RULE VIII . Active - transitive verbs govern the objective case . EXERCISES IN PARSING CONTINUED . Transitive Verbs . " I lament my fate . " You regard your friends . " " We desire your improvement . " " We ...
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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.