Appendix to Lectures on English Grammar: Containing an Additional Number of Incorrect Phrases, Or Vulgarisms, and a Selection of Nearly Four Hundred Words : which are Frequently Pronounced Contrary to the Best Usage |
Wat mensen zeggen - Een review schrijven
We hebben geen reviews gevonden op de gebruikelijke plaatsen.
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Appendix to Lectures on English Grammar: Containing an Additional Number of ... Joseph Hervey Hull Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
action active adding adjective pronouns adverb agent agree agreeably answer apply beautiful become Charlotte common comparative compound conjunction connected copulative Corrected Define definite denotes distinguish English example expressed Favour frequently gender give gone governed grammar grammarian Harriet imperative mood implied indicative mood infinitive mood intended interjection joined kind lady language lecture manner Name nature neuter never nominative NOTE noun or pronoun objective observe order of parsing parsing participle passive perfect participle Permit person and number person singular personal pronoun plural plural verb positive possessive preposition present present tense proper QUESTIONS received regular relation relative pronoun require Rule second person sense sentence signify singular number situation sometimes speak speech stands student superlative taught tense thing third person thou tion tive understood ungrammatical verb walks word write
Populaire passages
Pagina 59 - Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Pagina 39 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Pagina 58 - 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!
Pagina 59 - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the Water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.
Pagina 57 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Pagina 59 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it.
Pagina 59 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
Pagina 2 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Pagina 57 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Pagina 59 - ... been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Appendix to Lectures on English Grammar: Containing an Additional Number of Incorrect Phrases, Or Vulgarisms, and a Selection of Nearly Four Hundred Words : which are Frequently Pronounced Contrary to the Best Usage |
| Auteur | Joseph Hervey Hull |
| Uitgever | Lincoln & Edmands, 1828 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Harvard University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 26 maart 2008 |
| Lengte | 12 pagina's |
| Citatie exporteren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |