Morris's Grammar: A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language : Dialogically and Progressively Arranged : in which Every Word is Parsed According to Its UseT. Holman, 1858 - 192 sider |
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1st Pers active active-intransitive verbs adjective pronoun adverbs affirmation agree applied belonging better boys called change of termination class of words compound pronoun conjunction connected Correct the errors definition denote distinction distinguish English Grammar English language examples EXERCISE express an action feminine form the plural future tense girls govern objects grammarians helping descriptives horse imperative mood imperfect tense imply action indicative mood infinitive mood John Kirkham knife language Latin Mary masculine gender means MODEL Murray names neuter verbs Noah Webster nominative NOTE nouns and pronouns parse participial noun past tense perfect participle pluperfect tense plural number potential mood preposition present tense principle propriety pupil qualify R. C. Smith relative ride RULE second future sentence signify singular number speaking speech subjunctive mood superlative teach teacher term third person thou tives verbal noun vowel Webster William write yesterday
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Side 59 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Side 60 - The Pluperfect Tense represents a thing, not only ' as past, but also as prior to some other point of time specified in the sentence : as, " I had finished my letter before he arrived.
Side 117 - Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
Side viii - Lupin was, comforted by the mere voice and presence of such a man; and, though he had merely said 'a verb must agree with its nominative case in number and person...
Side 181 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Side 189 - But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go ! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Side 70 - Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, and hears Him in the wind...
Side 157 - Ought is made use of only in the present time, and for that reason a great deal has been lost to our language by this corruption. As to the Verbs which some grammarians have called impersonal, there are, in fact, no such things in the English language. By impersonal Verb is meant a Verb that has no noun or pronoun for its nominative case; no person or thing that is the actor, or receiver of an action, or that is in being. Thus: "it rains,'" is by some called an impersonal Verb; but the pronoun it...
Side 52 - ... first clause. The use of the present tense of the subjunctive, without the personal terminations, was formerly very general. It was reserved for the classical writers of the eighteenth century to lay aside the pedantic forms, if he go, if it proceed, though he come, &,c., and restore the native idiom of the language, by writing it as men spoke it, and as they still speak it, unless perverted by grammars. " If they are notions imprinted.
Side 188 - We hear nothing of causing the blind to see, the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, the lepers to be cleansed...