Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar: With an Appendix, Containing Exercises in Orthography, in Parsing, in Syntax, and in Punctuation. Designed for the Younger Classes of LearnersLincoln & Edmands, 1828 - 122 sider |
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... VERB , the ADVERB , PREPOSITION , the CONJUNCTION , and the INTERJEC- TION . the 1. An Article is a word prefixed to substantives ,. to point them out , and to show how far their signi- fication extends ; as , a garden , an eagle , the ...
... VERB , the ADVERB , PREPOSITION , the CONJUNCTION , and the INTERJEC- TION . the 1. An Article is a word prefixed to substantives ,. to point them out , and to show how far their signi- fication extends ; as , a garden , an eagle , the ...
Side 13
... Verb is a word which signifies to BE , to DO , or to SUFFER ; as , I am , I rule , I am ruled . " 66 A Verb may generally be distinguished by its making sense with any of the personal pronouns , or the word to , before it ; as , I walk ...
... Verb is a word which signifies to BE , to DO , or to SUFFER ; as , I am , I rule , I am ruled . " 66 A Verb may generally be distinguished by its making sense with any of the personal pronouns , or the word to , before it ; as , I walk ...
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... verb ; as , " The boy plays ; " " The girls learn . " The possessive case expresses the relation of prop- erty or possession ; and has an apostrophe , with the letter s coming after it ; as , The scholar's duty ; " " My father's house ...
... verb ; as , " The boy plays ; " " The girls learn . " The possessive case expresses the relation of prop- erty or possession ; and has an apostrophe , with the letter s coming after it ; as , The scholar's duty ; " " My father's house ...
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... VERBS . A Verb is a word which signifies to BE , to Do , or to SUFFER ; as , " I am , I rule , I am ruled . ” Verbs are of three kinds ; ACTIVE , PASSIVE , ETYMOLOGY . 25.
... VERBS . A Verb is a word which signifies to BE , to Do , or to SUFFER ; as , " I am , I rule , I am ruled . ” Verbs are of three kinds ; ACTIVE , PASSIVE , ETYMOLOGY . 25.
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... Verb Active - transitive expresses an action , and necessarily implies an agent , and , an object act- ed upon ; as , to love ; " I love Penel'ope . " A Verb Active - intransitive expresses an action , which is confined to the agent ...
... Verb Active - transitive expresses an action , and necessarily implies an agent , and , an object act- ed upon ; as , to love ; " I love Penel'ope . " A Verb Active - intransitive expresses an action , which is confined to the agent ...
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66 Note active verb Adjective Pronouns adverb antecedent auxiliary better comma conjunction connected Copulative DEFECTIVE VERBS denote Diphthong ellipsis English Exercises following verbs frequently genitive govern verbs Grammar happy hast hath honour Imperative Mood Imperfect Tense improperly indicative mood infinitive mood Interjections Irregular Verbs king live manner mayst or canst nominative noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns number and person objective omitted Orthography Parsing passions passive verb pause perfect participle personal pronoun phrase Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive Potential Mood preposition Present Tense relative pronoun respect reward RULE VIII Rule XII Second Future Tense second person SECT semicolon sense shalt or wilt shouldst signifies singular number sometimes sound subjunctive mood syllable thing Thou art Thou hadst thou love Thou mayst Thou mightst thou shalt tion tive mood verb active verb neuter vice virtue voice vowel wise word wouldst Write the following
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Side 79 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Side 115 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Side 116 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Side 114 - Order is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, 50 More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Side 4 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Side 34 - FUTURE TENSE. SINGULAR. PLURAL. 1. I shall have been. 1. We shall have been. 2.
Side 75 - When words are placed in opposition to each other, or with some marked variety, they require to be distinguished by a comma: as, " Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full.
Side 115 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Side 117 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Side 30 - The Conjugation of a verb, is the regular combination and arrangement of its several numbers, persons, moods, and tenses. The Conjugation of an active verb is styled the ACTIVE VOICE ; and that of a passive verb, the PASSIVE VOICE.