The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential Rules of English Grammar, Etc |
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The Ar- ticle , Noun , Adjective , Pronoun , Verb , Participle , Adverb , Preposition , Conjunction , and Interjection . To know when and where to use these several parts of speech , and to render the subject plain and familiar , is the ...
The Ar- ticle , Noun , Adjective , Pronoun , Verb , Participle , Adverb , Preposition , Conjunction , and Interjection . To know when and where to use these several parts of speech , and to render the subject plain and familiar , is the ...
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It is likewise used before the adjectives few and many ; as , a few men ; a great many men . The article a has sometimes the import of each and every ; as , He came twice a year . It is used in this sense with a preposition understood .
It is likewise used before the adjectives few and many ; as , a few men ; a great many men . The article a has sometimes the import of each and every ; as , He came twice a year . It is used in this sense with a preposition understood .
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The preposition of , joined to a noun , is frequently equivalent to the possessive case , and may be used to express the same relation with more elegance ; as , ' A Christian's hope , ' ' The hope of a Christian .
The preposition of , joined to a noun , is frequently equivalent to the possessive case , and may be used to express the same relation with more elegance ; as , ' A Christian's hope , ' ' The hope of a Christian .
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6 , There are three parts of speech which govern the ob jective case ; namely , active verbs , active participles , and prepositions . I saw a man . Here man is the object of the action of the transitive verb saw .
6 , There are three parts of speech which govern the ob jective case ; namely , active verbs , active participles , and prepositions . I saw a man . Here man is the object of the action of the transitive verb saw .
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Participial nouns , ( so called , because they have the sense of nouns , and admit prepositions to precede them , that govern them as nouns in the objective ) govern the nouns that follow them in the objective case ; as , ' I heard of ...
Participial nouns , ( so called , because they have the sense of nouns , and admit prepositions to precede them , that govern them as nouns in the objective ) govern the nouns that follow them in the objective case ; as , ' I heard of ...
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