A Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Common Schools, Academies and SeminariesNewman & Ivison, 1854 - 250 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... considered . A system of analysis is introduced into this work , which is not contained in any English grammar with which the author is acquainted , except one , and but partially in that . Accord- ing to this analysis , propositions ...
... considered . A system of analysis is introduced into this work , which is not contained in any English grammar with which the author is acquainted , except one , and but partially in that . Accord- ing to this analysis , propositions ...
Pagina 43
... considered apart from the subject or agent ; as , virtue , goodness , haste . § 40. A collective noun denotes a collection of ob- jects ; as , council , assembly , flock , congregation . REMARK . Collective nouns in the singular form ...
... considered apart from the subject or agent ; as , virtue , goodness , haste . § 40. A collective noun denotes a collection of ob- jects ; as , council , assembly , flock , congregation . REMARK . Collective nouns in the singular form ...
Pagina 44
... considered have to the dis- course itself . REM . 2. This distinction refers only to nouns , pronouns , and finite verbs . § 47. There are three persons ; the first , the second , and the third . FIRST COURSE . What is a sentential noun ...
... considered have to the dis- course itself . REM . 2. This distinction refers only to nouns , pronouns , and finite verbs . § 47. There are three persons ; the first , the second , and the third . FIRST COURSE . What is a sentential noun ...
Pagina 46
... considered collectively ; as , men , ships , as- semblies , companies , dozens . REM . 1. The plural number of nouns is generally formed by affixing s or es to the singular ; as , thought , thoughts ; sea , seas ; hand , hands ; box ...
... considered collectively ; as , men , ships , as- semblies , companies , dozens . REM . 1. The plural number of nouns is generally formed by affixing s or es to the singular ; as , thought , thoughts ; sea , seas ; hand , hands ; box ...
Pagina 58
... considered separately . They are , each , every , either and neither . $ 78 . An indefinite adjective expresses its subjects indefinitely . They are , some , one , other , such , both , same , another , none , and sometimes which and ...
... considered separately . They are , each , every , either and neither . $ 78 . An indefinite adjective expresses its subjects indefinitely . They are , some , one , other , such , both , same , another , none , and sometimes which and ...
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A Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Common Schools, Academies ... Edward J. Hallock Volledige weergave - 1854 |
Grammar of the English Language; For the Use of Schools Eduard J Hallock Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
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adjective adverbs affirmed antecedent apposition auxiliaries called clause collective noun comma Conjugate conjunction consonant construction declension defective verbs definite article degrees of comparison derived diphthong distinguished expressed False Orthography False Punctuation False Syntax formed by annexing gender governed grammatical subject imperative mode imperfect tense indefinite pronouns indicative mode infinitive mode Interjections interrogative intransitive letters logical subject loved meaning Metonomy mind modified neuter verb nominative noun denoting noun or pronoun object participial noun passive verb past action Perf perfect participle person or thing person singular personal pronouns pluperfect tense plural number Poss possessive preceding prefixed Pres present participle present tense principles proposition refer relative pronoun REMARK RULE Saxon SECOND COURSE Second Future Tense second person singular number sometimes sounded like long speech subject-nominative subjunctive mode tense denotes term termination thee third person thou tion tive transitive verb Triphthongs usually virtue vowel words
Populaire passages
Pagina 217 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Pagina 249 - 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 223 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Pagina 219 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pagina 217 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Pagina 219 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Pagina 77 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Pagina 217 - Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow/ Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence/ And...
Pagina 215 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Pagina 218 - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence. What then ? what rests ? Try what repentance can : What can it not ? Yet what can it, when one can not repent ? O wretched state ! O bosom, black as death ! O limed soul; that struggling to be free, Art more engag'd ! Help, angels, make assay ! Bow, stubborn knees ! and, heart, with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe; All may be well ! [Retires, and kneels.