An Abridgment of L. Murray's English Grammar: With Alterations and Improvements : Designed for the Use of the Younger Class of LearnersManning & Loring, 1808 - 72 Seiten |
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... founded by it- felf ; but , joined with a vowel , forms an articulate found . The vowels are , a , e , i , o , u , and fometimes w and y . W and y are confonants when they begin a word or fyllable ; but in every other fituation they are ...
... founded by it- felf ; but , joined with a vowel , forms an articulate found . The vowels are , a , e , i , o , u , and fometimes w and y . W and y are confonants when they begin a word or fyllable ; but in every other fituation they are ...
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... founded ; as , ea in eagle , oa in boat . ] SYLLABLES . [ A fyllable is a found either fimple or compound- ed , pronounced by a fingle impulfe of the voice , and conftituting a word , or part of a word ; as , man , man - ful . ] WORDS ...
... founded ; as , ea in eagle , oa in boat . ] SYLLABLES . [ A fyllable is a found either fimple or compound- ed , pronounced by a fingle impulfe of the voice , and conftituting a word , or part of a word ; as , man , man - ful . ] WORDS ...
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... founded on the high opinion we entertain of ourselves ; difdain , on the low opinion we have of others . Only , alone . - Only , imports that there is no other of the fame kind ; alone , imports being accompanied by no other . An only ...
... founded on the high opinion we entertain of ourselves ; difdain , on the low opinion we have of others . Only , alone . - Only , imports that there is no other of the fame kind ; alone , imports being accompanied by no other . An only ...
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... founded entirely on the refem- blance which one object bears to another ; as , when we fay of fuch a minifter , that " He is the pillar of the state . " Metaphors , as well as other figures , fhould , on no occafion , be fuck on ...
... founded entirely on the refem- blance which one object bears to another ; as , when we fay of fuch a minifter , that " He is the pillar of the state . " Metaphors , as well as other figures , fhould , on no occafion , be fuck on ...
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... founded on likenelles which are too faint and remote . A Metonymy is founded on the feveral relations of caufe and effect , container and contained , fign and thing fignified . When we fay , " They read Milton , " the caufe is put in ...
... founded on likenelles which are too faint and remote . A Metonymy is founded on the feveral relations of caufe and effect , container and contained , fign and thing fignified . When we fay , " They read Milton , " the caufe is put in ...
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adjective adjuncts adverb alſo becauſe caufe colon comma compariſon COMPOUND PERFECT confifts confonant conjunction connected DEFECTIVE VERBS defire diphthong diſtinguiſhed Engliſh expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feen femicolon fenfe feparated fhalt fhort fhould have loved fhould love fhouldft fign fignifies fimple fentence fingle finite verb fome fometimes fpeech ftudy fubftantive fubject fuch fuperlative fyllable gender houfe Imperative Mode IMPERFECT SINGULAR Indicative Mode Infinitive Mode inftances itfelf lefs LESSON Metonymy moft moſt muft muſt nominative cafe nouns nouns and pronouns objective cafe paffion Perf perfect participle PERFECT TENSE Perfonal pronouns phraſe PLUPERFECT SINGULAR PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number pofitive Potential Mode preffed prepofition PRESENT TENSE refpect REGULAR VERB relative pronoun repreſents requifite RULE SECOND FUTURE TENSE ſhall shalt or wilt Subjunctive Synecdoche tenfe tenſe thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe Thou art Thou mayft Thou mightft Thou shalt ufed uſed verb virtue vowel wife words and phrafes wouldft
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Seite 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 57 - Were all books reduced thus to their quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.
Seite 43 - When a nominative comes between the relative and the verb, the relative is governed by some word in its own member of the sentence : as, " He who preserves me, to whom I owe my being, whose I am, and whom I serve, is eternal.
Seite 31 - They might have been loved. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. Present Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. If I be loved, 1. If we be loved, 2. If thou be loved, 2. If you be loved, 3. If he be loved; 3. If they be loved.
Seite 12 - What, is a kind of compound relative, including both the antecedent and the relative, and is equivalent to that which; as "This is what I wanted ;" that is to say,
Seite 46 - By the thirteenth rule of syntax, when verbs are used that, in point of time, relate to each other, the order of time should be observed. The imperfect tense visited should, therefore, have been had visited, in the pluperfect tense, representing the.