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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... present occa- sion , as they assist in forming an opinion of the comparative merits of the " Productive System , " on which this work is principally based . " In reference to intellectual education , the persons who were in strumental ...
... present occa- sion , as they assist in forming an opinion of the comparative merits of the " Productive System , " on which this work is principally based . " In reference to intellectual education , the persons who were in strumental ...
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... present and future destinies of their fellow beings . In this way he produced an impulse , which pervaded the continent of Europe , and which , by means of his popu- lar and theoretical works , reached the cottages of the poor and ...
... present and future destinies of their fellow beings . In this way he produced an impulse , which pervaded the continent of Europe , and which , by means of his popu- lar and theoretical works , reached the cottages of the poor and ...
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... present the objects which they are capa- ble of examining , is to open to the child the sources of knowledge- to place before him a book which is ever open , and in which he may every moment read . This , they maintain , is the first ...
... present the objects which they are capa- ble of examining , is to open to the child the sources of knowledge- to place before him a book which is ever open , and in which he may every moment read . This , they maintain , is the first ...
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... present , their genders are supposed to be known . Q. If , as we have seen , pronouns stand for nouns , what gender , number , and person ought they to have ? 137. The same as the nouns for which they stand . Q. What , then , may be ...
... present , their genders are supposed to be known . Q. If , as we have seen , pronouns stand for nouns , what gender , number , and person ought they to have ? 137. The same as the nouns for which they stand . Q. What , then , may be ...
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... present purpose , that you perceive the reason of the name of the neuter verb . What is a neuter verb ? 157. A neuter verb is one that simply implies being or existence in a certain state . Q. Will you inform me now , in general terms ...
... present purpose , that you perceive the reason of the name of the neuter verb . What is a neuter verb ? 157. A neuter verb is one that simply implies being or existence in a certain state . Q. Will you inform me now , in general terms ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
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.