English Grammar on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently Adopted in Germany and Switzerland, Designed for Schools and AcademiesSpalding & Storrs, 1840 - 192 sider |
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Side 8
... neuter mean ? 23. It means neither . Q. Chair is the name neither of a male nor a female : what gender , then . may it properly be called ? 24. Neuter gender . Q. What nouns , then , may be said to be of the neuter gender ? 25. The ...
... neuter mean ? 23. It means neither . Q. Chair is the name neither of a male nor a female : what gender , then . may it properly be called ? 24. Neuter gender . Q. What nouns , then , may be said to be of the neuter gender ? 25. The ...
Side 9
... Neuter gender , because it is the name neither of a male nor female . Q. Of what gender is bench ? why ? chair ? why ... neuter , and the common . Q. Will you name a noun of the masculine gender ? one of the feminine ? one of the neuter ...
... Neuter gender , because it is the name neither of a male nor female . Q. Of what gender is bench ? why ? chair ? why ... neuter , and the common . Q. Will you name a noun of the masculine gender ? one of the feminine ? one of the neuter ...
Side 13
... NEUTER GENDER ; it is neither male nor female- THIRD PERSON ; it is spoken of -- SINGULAR NUMBER ; it means but one . Let the learner parse the foregoing , till the mode of parsing the noun is so familiar to him , that he can do it ...
... NEUTER GENDER ; it is neither male nor female- THIRD PERSON ; it is spoken of -- SINGULAR NUMBER ; it means but one . Let the learner parse the foregoing , till the mode of parsing the noun is so familiar to him , that he can do it ...
Side 18
... NEUTER . Sing Plur : Nom . It . They . Poss . Its . Theirs or their . Obj . It . Them . Q. Will you decline I in both numbers ? thou or you ? he ? she ? it ? Q. In what person , number , and case is I ? we ? my ? mine ? our or ours ? me ...
... NEUTER . Sing Plur : Nom . It . They . Poss . Its . Theirs or their . Obj . It . Them . Q. Will you decline I in both numbers ? thou or you ? he ? she ? it ? Q. In what person , number , and case is I ? we ? my ? mine ? our or ours ? me ...
Side 19
... neuter Q. How many pronouns are there in all , of the first person ? Q. How many of the second , and how many of the third ? Q. The pronouns of the nominative case , singular , are cailed leading pro- nouns how many of these are there ...
... neuter Q. How many pronouns are there in all , of the first person ? Q. How many of the second , and how many of the third ? Q. The pronouns of the nominative case , singular , are cailed leading pro- nouns how many of these are there ...
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Almindelige termer og sætninger
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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Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 51 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Side 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.
Side 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.