The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Examples for Parsing, Questions for Examination, False Syntax for Correction, Exercises for Writing, Observations for the Advanced Student, and a Key to the Oral Exercises: to which are Added Four Appendixes. Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, and Private LearnersAlling, Seymour & Company, 1848 - 311 Seiten |
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Seite ix
... sense might dictate , that learning is not encouraged or respected by those who , for the making of books , prefer a pair of scissors to the pen . 36. The real history of grammar is little known ; and many erroneous impressions are ...
... sense might dictate , that learning is not encouraged or respected by those who , for the making of books , prefer a pair of scissors to the pen . 36. The real history of grammar is little known ; and many erroneous impressions are ...
Seite x
... sense than as a forced apology for his own assumptions , his language on this point is highly injurious towards the very au- thors whom he copied . To justify himself , he ungenerously places them , in common with others , under a ...
... sense than as a forced apology for his own assumptions , his language on this point is highly injurious towards the very au- thors whom he copied . To justify himself , he ungenerously places them , in common with others , under a ...
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... sense . A cascade , or waterfal , is a charming object in scenery . Nettles grow in the vinyard of the slothfull . Tuition is lost on idlers and numbsculs . EXERCISE V. - SPELLING . 1. He that scofs at the crooked , should beware of ...
... sense . A cascade , or waterfal , is a charming object in scenery . Nettles grow in the vinyard of the slothfull . Tuition is lost on idlers and numbsculs . EXERCISE V. - SPELLING . 1. He that scofs at the crooked , should beware of ...
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... sense ; as , Man is endowed with reason . OF THE NOUN . A Noun is the name of any person , place , or thing , that can be known or mentioned : as , George , York , man , apple , truth . OBS . 1. - All words and signs taken technically ...
... sense ; as , Man is endowed with reason . OF THE NOUN . A Noun is the name of any person , place , or thing , that can be known or mentioned : as , George , York , man , apple , truth . OBS . 1. - All words and signs taken technically ...
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... sense . case . There are three cases ; the nominative , the possessive , and the objective . The nominative case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun , which denotes the subject of a verb : as , The boy runs ; I run . OBS . - The ...
... sense . case . There are three cases ; the nominative , the possessive , and the objective . The nominative case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun , which denotes the subject of a verb : as , The boy runs ; I run . OBS . - The ...
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according to Rule active-transitive verb adjective adverb agree antecedent apposition auxiliary clause comma common noun compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant construction definite article denotes derived ellipsis employed English examples EXERCISE express FALSE SYNTAX figure finite verb governed grammar grammarians happiness honour imperative mood Imperfect Tense improper diphthong indicative mood infinitive mood inserted interjection interrogative language learner learning LESSON letters loved meaning neuter gender never nominative noun or pronoun objective OBSERVATIONS ON RULE parsing passive perfect participle person or thing personal pronoun Pleonasm Pluperfect Pluperfect Tense plural number Poss potential mood preceded prefixed preposition Present Tense preterit proper reading relation relative pronoun require Saxon second person singular sense signifies singular number sometimes sound speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood syllable SYNTAX UNDER RULE thee thing merely spoken third person thou art tion triphthong virtue vowel wise words write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 241 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Seite 134 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
Seite 120 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Seite 245 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Seite 200 - And he confessed, and denied not ; but confessed, " I am not the Christ." And they asked him, " What then ? Art thou Elias ? " And he saith, " I am not." " Art thou that prophet ? " And he answered,
Seite 243 - But what think ye ? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to.day in my vineyard.
Seite 166 - And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city.
Seite 222 - For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord ; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
Seite 216 - Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
Seite 116 - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.