A Short Introduction to English Grammar: With Critical NotesJ. Binns, 1794 - 183 páginas |
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... Author feems not to have explained himself with fuf- ficient clearness and precifion on this head . Does it mean , that ... authors , often offends against every part of Grammar ? Thus far , I am afraid , the charge is true . Or does it ...
... Author feems not to have explained himself with fuf- ficient clearness and precifion on this head . Does it mean , that ... authors , often offends against every part of Grammar ? Thus far , I am afraid , the charge is true . Or does it ...
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... authors : the greateft Critic and moft able Grammarian of the laft age , when he came to apply his Learning and his Criticism to an English Author , was frequently at a loss in matters of ordinary use and common con- ftruction in his ...
... authors : the greateft Critic and moft able Grammarian of the laft age , when he came to apply his Learning and his Criticism to an English Author , was frequently at a loss in matters of ordinary use and common con- ftruction in his ...
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... authors have committed grofs mistakes , for want of a due knowledge of English Grammar , or at leaft of a proper attention to the rules of it . The examples there given are fuch as occurred in reading , without any very curious or me ...
... authors have committed grofs mistakes , for want of a due knowledge of English Grammar , or at leaft of a proper attention to the rules of it . The examples there given are fuch as occurred in reading , without any very curious or me ...
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... authors among us , that they would do well to consider this part of Learning as an object not altogether beneath their regard . The principal defign of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to exprefs ourselves with propriety in that ...
... authors among us , that they would do well to consider this part of Learning as an object not altogether beneath their regard . The principal defign of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to exprefs ourselves with propriety in that ...
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... author is greatly obliged to feveral Learned Gentlemen , who have favored him with their remarks upon the firft Edition which was indeed principally defigned to pro- cure their assistance , and to try the judgement of the public . He ...
... author is greatly obliged to feveral Learned Gentlemen , who have favored him with their remarks upon the firft Edition which was indeed principally defigned to pro- cure their assistance , and to try the judgement of the public . He ...
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Abfolute Addifon Adjective Adverb alfo alſo anſwer Article Auxiliary Verb becauſe beft Bentley Caſe Compariſon confonant conftruction Conjunction diftinction diftinguiſhed diphthong diſcourſe Dryden Effay English example expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feems fenfe fhall fignifies firft firſt fitten fome fometimes ftand ftantive ftill ftyle fuch fupplied fyllable Gender governed Grammar hath himſelf Ibid Iliad improperly Indicative Mode Infinitive Mode inftances inftead Irregular Irregular Verbs itſelf laft Language Letter likewife manner Milton miſtake moft moſt muft Neuter Nominative Cafe Noun obferved Objective Cafe paffion Paffive Paft Participle pauſes Phrafe phraſe Plural Number Poffeffive Cafe Pope Pref Prefent Prepofition Pronominal Adjectives Pronoun purpoſe reafon refpect reft Saxon ſeems Sentence Serm Shakspeare ſhould ſome ſpoken Subftantive Subjunctive Subjunctive Mode ſuch Swift tence thee thefe themſelves theſe thing third Perfon Singular thofe thoſe thou tive underſtood uſed Verb Active Verb Neuter vowel whofe words
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