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 11
... nominative case . Q. What , then , is the nominative case of nouns ? 52. The nominative case is the agent or doer . Q. When I say , " The dog runs , " in what case is dog , and why ? 53. Dog is in the nominative case , because it is the ...
... nominative case . Q. What , then , is the nominative case of nouns ? 52. The nominative case is the agent or doer . Q. When I say , " The dog runs , " in what case is dog , and why ? 53. Dog is in the nominative case , because it is the ...
Side 12
... nominative , possessive and objec tive . Q. Decline sometimes means to vary the endings of a word : what , then , do I mean when I ask you to decline a noun ? 68. To tell its different cases or endings . Q. Will you decline John ? 69 ...
... nominative , possessive and objec tive . Q. Decline sometimes means to vary the endings of a word : what , then , do I mean when I ask you to decline a noun ? 68. To tell its different cases or endings . Q. Will you decline John ? 69 ...
Side 18
... and what are they ? 128. Two - the singular and plural . Q. How many cases , and what are they ? 129. Three - the nominative , the possessive , and the objective . Q. How many persons ? 130. Three - the first 18 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... and what are they ? 128. Two - the singular and plural . Q. How many cases , and what are they ? 129. Three - the nominative , the possessive , and the objective . Q. How many persons ? 130. Three - the first 18 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
Side 19
... nominative case , singular , are cailed leading pro- nouns how many of these are there ? 133. Five - I , thou or you , he , she , it . Q. Why are not the possessive and objective cases of the singular and plural numbers , also the ...
... nominative case , singular , are cailed leading pro- nouns how many of these are there ? 133. Five - I , thou or you , he , she , it . Q. Why are not the possessive and objective cases of the singular and plural numbers , also the ...
Side 21
... nominative varies : what , then , will be the rule for the nominative case ? RULE VI . The nominative case governs the verb in number and person . Q. If the nominative case governs the verb in number and person , in what respect must ...
... nominative varies : what , then , will be the rule for the nominative case ? RULE VI . The nominative case governs the verb in number and person . Q. If the nominative case governs the verb in number and person , in what respect must ...
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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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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.