The Principles of English Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most Approved English Grammars Extant, with Copious Exercises in Parsing and Syntax : and an Appendix of Various and Useful Matters for the Use of SchoolsPratt, Woodford, 1850 - 214 sider |
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Side iv
... much discussion , nothing has yet been proposed which , on the whole , appears less objectionable in principle , or more conve ment in practice , than that of Murray , which iv PREFACE . PRONOUNS, definition and division.
... much discussion , nothing has yet been proposed which , on the whole , appears less objectionable in principle , or more conve ment in practice , than that of Murray , which iv PREFACE . PRONOUNS, definition and division.
Side ix
... III . ADJECTIVES , definition and comparison of , Obs . on , Compared irregularly , Construction of , • 18 , 19 · 20 97 , 117 of comparative & superlative , 114 , 115 16 • 20 • 102 · IV . PRONOUNS , definition and division of , Personal.
... III . ADJECTIVES , definition and comparison of , Obs . on , Compared irregularly , Construction of , • 18 , 19 · 20 97 , 117 of comparative & superlative , 114 , 115 16 • 20 • 102 · IV . PRONOUNS , definition and division of , Personal.
Side x
... PRONOUNS , definition and division of , Personal , declension of , and observations on , Construction of , Relative , how declined and applied , Construction of , Interrogative , how applied , Adjective , division of , Possessive , Page ...
... PRONOUNS , definition and division of , Personal , declension of , and observations on , Construction of , Relative , how declined and applied , Construction of , Interrogative , how applied , Adjective , division of , Possessive , Page ...
Side xii
... Pronouns agree with the nouns , & c . The relative agrees with its antecedent , . Special rules and observations under ... pronoun other , Double comparatives and superlatives , Adverbs modify verbs , & c . 114 • 115 . 116 117 • 118 119 ...
... Pronouns agree with the nouns , & c . The relative agrees with its antecedent , . Special rules and observations under ... pronoun other , Double comparatives and superlatives , Adverbs modify verbs , & c . 114 • 115 . 116 117 • 118 119 ...
Side 7
... Pronoun , Verb , Adverb , Preposition , Interjection and Con junction . Of these the Noun , Pronoun , and Verb are de- clined , the rest are indeclinable . QUESTIONS . * What is English Grammar ? Into how many parts is it divided ...
... Pronoun , Verb , Adverb , Preposition , Interjection and Con junction . Of these the Noun , Pronoun , and Verb are de- clined , the rest are indeclinable . QUESTIONS . * What is English Grammar ? Into how many parts is it divided ...
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action active voice adjectives adverbs antecedent applied auxiliary Cæsar called comma compared conjunction connected connexion defective verbs denote distinct English expressed or understood gender governed grammar happy IMPERATIVE MOOD imperfect tense impersonal verbs implied improvement indefinite indicative infinitive mood intransitive James ject king language letter loved masculine means moods and tenses neuter never nominative noun or pronoun objective OBSERVATIONS omitted parsing passive voice past perfect participle person or thing personal pronoun phrase Pluperfect plural poetry possessive pronoun POTENTIAL MOOD preceded preposition present participle Present Tense PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES proper regard relative pronoun Remark RULE sense sentence shalt or wilt shew signification simple singular sometimes sound speak speech subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllable Syntax term thee third person tion tive transitive verb Trochees verse virtue vowel wise words write yesterday
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Side 89 - Can we be said to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us if we wantonly inflict on them even the smallest pain?
Side 173 - Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world recedes; it disappears!
Side 177 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Side 176 - So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality ; then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 0 death, where is thy sting ? 0 grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Side 1 - ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ENGLISH GRAMMAR is the art of speaking and writing the English Language with propriety.
Side 172 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Side 171 - Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Side 155 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of: and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Side 135 - My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.
Side 142 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?