The English language: its grammar and history. Together with a treatise on English composition, and exercises |
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... agree with the gender of the substantives they qualify . In English , a substantive has no gender unless that which is denoted by it has sex ; in other words , the distinction of gender in English grammar is coincident with that of sex ...
... agree with the gender of the substantives they qualify . In English , a substantive has no gender unless that which is denoted by it has sex ; in other words , the distinction of gender in English grammar is coincident with that of sex ...
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... agree with its antecedent in number , person , and gender . Although they never alter their form to express this agreement in number and person , they require the verbs following them to do so . " O thou that tellest good tidings to ...
... agree with its antecedent in number , person , and gender . Although they never alter their form to express this agreement in number and person , they require the verbs following them to do so . " O thou that tellest good tidings to ...
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... and a negative at the same time : - There is no one but will agree with me . " No scene of life but has contributed Much to remember . " - Rogers . " There breathes not clansman of thy line But would 34 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... and a negative at the same time : - There is no one but will agree with me . " No scene of life but has contributed Much to remember . " - Rogers . " There breathes not clansman of thy line But would 34 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... agree- ing with it have fallen into disuse : -Art thou well ? Are you well ? The singular pronoun and verb are seldom used except in the language of prayer . CONJUGATION OF THE VERB To Teach . I. SIMPLE CONJUGATION . ACTIVE VOICE ...
... agree- ing with it have fallen into disuse : -Art thou well ? Are you well ? The singular pronoun and verb are seldom used except in the language of prayer . CONJUGATION OF THE VERB To Teach . I. SIMPLE CONJUGATION . ACTIVE VOICE ...
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... Agreement is the relation which exists between two or more words in a sentence , so as to assimilate them to each other in one or more respects . 1. The Verb agrees with its Nominative Case in Number and Person : -I am told that you are ...
... Agreement is the relation which exists between two or more words in a sentence , so as to assimilate them to each other in one or more respects . 1. The Verb agrees with its Nominative Case in Number and Person : -I am told that you are ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
according action added adjective adverbs agree antecedent appear arrangement auxiliary becomes beginning brother called cause changes character close comes common compared composition conjunctions connected consists construction containing correct corresponding demonstrative denote derived distinct effect England English examples exercise express following sentences French function Future gender give govern Grammar hence illustrate Imperative important indefinite Indicative Mood instances intended John kinds king language Latin less letters limit mark meaning mind Mood names nature never nominative notional objective origin participle Past perfect period person plural position possessive praise Predicate preposition present Princip pronoun proper qualify refer regard relation relative pronoun represented requires respectively rule Saxon seen simple singular sometimes sounds speak speech stands substantive supine taught teach tense things thou thought tion transitive usually verb voice walk words write written
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 158 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Seite 170 - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Seite 170 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Seite 169 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 152 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Seite 62 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Seite 170 - ... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Seite 158 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Seite 170 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Seite 144 - Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream, That...