The Principles of Latin Grammar ...

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Pratt, Woodford, Farmer & Brace, 1854 - 344 sider
 

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Side 199 - A PREPOSITION is a word which shows the relation between a noun or pronoun following it, and some other word in the sentence ; as, " The love OF money.'1'' —
Side 164 - PRES. Amaturus esse, To be about to love. PERF. Amaturus fuisse, To have been about to love.
Side 105 - ... 4. Two or more nouns or pronouns together may be the subject of one verb. If these happen to be of...
Side 10 - A noun is in the third person, when it denotes the person or thing spoken of; as, " Washington was brave." — " Truth is mighty." 116. REMARK. — The third person is used sometimes for the first; as, " Thy servant became surety for the lad to my father.
Side 327 - Latins, often cuts off the vowel at the end of " a word, when the next word begins with a vowel ; " though he does not, like the Greeks, wholly drop " the vowel, but ftill retains it in writing, like the
Side 14 - Accusative and Vocative like the Nominative, in both numbers ; and these cases in the plural end always in a. 2. The Dative and Ablative plural end always alike.
Side 48 - Some adjectives denote each gender by a different termination in. the nominative, and consequently have three terminations. Some have one form common to the masculine and feminine, and are adjectives of two terminations ; and some are adjectives of one termination, which is common to all genders. 5. Adjectives are either of the first and second declensions, or of the third only. 6. Adjectives of three terminations (except thirteen), are of the first and second declensions ; but those of one or two...
Side 333 - Ides, to subtract the number of the day mentioned from the number of the day on which the Nones or Ides fall, and add...
Side 69 - In all speech, three things are implied, the person speaking, the person spoken to, and the person or thing spoken of. These are called, in Grammar, the First, Second, and Third persons ; and the pronouns representing them are called Personal Pronouns.
Side 5 - A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trissyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. DIPHTHONGS AND TRIPHTHONGS. A diphthong is two vowels joined in one syllable ; as, ea in beat, ou in sound.

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