Practical English Grammar ...Wright, Simpkin, and Company, 1859 - 144 sider |
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active verb adjective pronouns adverbs agree called comparative degree Conjugate conjunctions consonant CORRECTED DEFECTIVE VERBS diphthong Eliza express FALSE SYNTAX father fear gender George girl governed grammar happiness honour horse Imperative Mood indef Indicative Mood infinitive mood invited irreg Jane known Let me hear letter loved Mary mayst or canst mother Name or write neut nouns ending Objective PARSING LESSONS participle PASSIVE VERBS passive voice PAST TENSE PERFECT TENSE person Singular Nominative personal pronouns PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive Potential Mood preposition PRESENT TENSE pron prop QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION Relative pronouns require Rule SECOND FUTURE TENSE sense sentence sing singular number SPECIMENS OF PARSING Spell the following Subjunctive Mood superlative syllable tense represent thing third person Thou hast Thou mayst Thou mightst to-day triphthong usually compared virtue vowel William wouldst yesterday
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Side 132 - Pity the sorrows of a poor old man ! Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span; Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.
Side 66 - ... eat, ate, eaten fall, fell, fallen feed, fed, fed feel, felt, felt fight, fought, fought find, found, found flee, fled, fled fling, flung, flung fly...
Side 144 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Side 141 - The colon is used to divide a sentence into two or more parts, less connected than those which are separated by a semicolon ; but not so independent as separate distinct sentences.
Side 58 - Ye or you were loved, 3. He was loved. 3. They were loved. Perfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been loved. 1. We have been loved. 2. Thou hast been...
Side 67 - Let let let Lie lay lain Light lit, R lit, a Loose lost lost Make made made Mean meant meant Meet met met Mow mowed mown, R Pay paid paid Put..
Side 128 - And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last.
Side 52 - THE VERB, To love. PRESENT TENSE. Singular. Plural. 1. I love. 1. We love. 2. Thou lovest. 2. You love. 3. He loves. 3. They love. PRESENT PERFECT TENSE. 1. I have loved.
Side 30 - A Pronoun is a word used instead of a noun, to avoid the too frequent repetition of the same word ; as, the man is happy, he is benevolent, he is useful.
Side 140 - OF THE COMMA. The Comma usually separates those parts of a sentence which, though very closely connected in sense and construction, require a pause between them.