The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential Rules of English Grammar, Etc |
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Without this knowledge , opportunities for writing and speaking are only occasions for men to display their unfitness to write and to speak . ' BOSTON : PUBLISHED BY WAITT & DOW . SOLD ALSO BY MARSH , CAPEN & LYON , WILLIAM HYDE & CO .
Without this knowledge , opportunities for writing and speaking are only occasions for men to display their unfitness to write and to speak . ' BOSTON : PUBLISHED BY WAITT & DOW . SOLD ALSO BY MARSH , CAPEN & LYON , WILLIAM HYDE & CO .
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Correct writers generally construe the following words as plural nouns ; pains , riches , alms , ethics , met- aphysics , mathematics , optics , politics , pneumatics , & c . The word news , is generally considered as belonging to the ...
Correct writers generally construe the following words as plural nouns ; pains , riches , alms , ethics , met- aphysics , mathematics , optics , politics , pneumatics , & c . The word news , is generally considered as belonging to the ...
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This is not correct , though custom and habit have made this manner of writing and speaking familiar to us . It should be the city London ; the city Boston ; the town Waltham . ' To say the city of Boston ' is not correct , because if ...
This is not correct , though custom and habit have made this manner of writing and speaking familiar to us . It should be the city London ; the city Boston ; the town Waltham . ' To say the city of Boston ' is not correct , because if ...
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Writing a letter . ' Here intelligence and letter are nouns in the objective case , the objects of the action of the active participles , re- ceiving and writing . 6 ' Re- With the gentlemen , from New - York .
Writing a letter . ' Here intelligence and letter are nouns in the objective case , the objects of the action of the active participles , re- ceiving and writing . 6 ' Re- With the gentlemen , from New - York .
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... as , ' I heard of his writing a book . ' There is much fortitude shown in a man's conquering his passions . " Here wri- ting and conquering are used as participial nouns , gov- erning book and passions in the objective case .
... as , ' I heard of his writing a book . ' There is much fortitude shown in a man's conquering his passions . " Here wri- ting and conquering are used as participial nouns , gov- erning book and passions in the objective case .
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