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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... 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 - that and those to the most distant ; as , " These gloves are superior to those . ' poverty are temptations ; that tends to excite pride , this discontent . " 401. The INDEFINITE are those that refer ...
... refer to the nearest persons or things - that and those to the most distant ; as , " These gloves are superior to those . ' poverty are temptations ; that tends to excite pride , this discontent . " 401. The INDEFINITE are those that refer ...
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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 ? 432 . 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 ? 432 . 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 participle setting is said to refer to the noun sun : What , then , may be regarded as a rule for the government of the infinitive ...
... referring to some noun in the sen- tence in which they are used ; as , " The sun is setting " here , the participle setting is said to refer to the noun sun : What , then , may be regarded as a rule for the government of the infinitive ...
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... refer to nouns . EXERCISES IN SYNTAX . " The wind is rising . ” 558. Rising is a PRESENT ACTIVE PARTICIPLE , from the ir- regular verb to rise- “ Pres . rise ; Imp . rose ; Perf . part . risen " -and it refers to wind , according to ...
... refer to nouns . EXERCISES IN SYNTAX . " The wind is rising . ” 558. Rising is a PRESENT ACTIVE PARTICIPLE , from the ir- regular verb to rise- “ Pres . rise ; Imp . rose ; Perf . part . risen " -and it refers to wind , according to ...
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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.