Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar: With an Appendix, Containing Exercises in Orthography, in Parsing, in Syntax, and in Punctuation. Designed for the Younger Classes of Learners |
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... of the English language , called the English Alphabet , are twenty - six in number . These letters are the representatives of cer- tain articulate , sounds SYLLABLES . A syllable is a sound either simple or ENGLISH GRAMMAR ...
... of the English language , called the English Alphabet , are twenty - six in number . These letters are the representatives of cer- tain articulate , sounds SYLLABLES . A syllable is a sound either simple or ENGLISH GRAMMAR ...
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... called , Parts of speech ; namely , the ARTICLE , the SUBSTantive or noun , the ADJECTIVE , the PRONOUN , the VERB , the Ad- VERB , the PREPOSITION , the CONJUNCTION , and the INTERJECTION . 1. An article is a word prefixed to ...
... called , Parts of speech ; namely , the ARTICLE , the SUBSTantive or noun , the ADJECTIVE , the PRONOUN , the VERB , the Ad- VERB , the PREPOSITION , the CONJUNCTION , and the INTERJECTION . 1. An article is a word prefixed to ...
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... called the definite article , because it as- certains what particular thing or things are meant ; as , " Give me the book : " " Bring me the apples ; " meaning some book , or apples , re- ferred to . A substantive , without any article ...
... called the definite article , because it as- certains what particular thing or things are meant ; as , " Give me the book : " " Bring me the apples ; " meaning some book , or apples , re- ferred to . A substantive , without any article ...
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... called the antecedent : they are who , which , and that ; as , " The man is happy who lives vir- tuously . " * What is a kind of compound relative , including both the antecedent and the relative , and is mostly equivalent to that which ...
... called the antecedent : they are who , which , and that ; as , " The man is happy who lives vir- tuously . " * What is a kind of compound relative , including both the antecedent and the relative , and is mostly equivalent to that which ...
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... called Interrogatives , when they are used in asking questions : as , " Who is he ? " " Which is the book ? " " What are you doing ? " ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS Adjective Pronouns are of a mixed nature , participating the properties both of ...
... called Interrogatives , when they are used in asking questions : as , " Who is he ? " " Which is the book ? " " What are you doing ? " ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS Adjective Pronouns are of a mixed nature , participating the properties both of ...
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Abridgment Accent according to RULE active verb Adjective Pronouns adverb agrees amiable Comma common substantive Compound Perfect Conjugate the following Conjunction connect copulative couldst DEFECTIVE VERBS definite article degrees of comparison derived favour fect participle following verbs folly governed happy heart honour Imperative Mood Imperfect Tense indicative mood Infinitive Mood Interjections kind letter live marked mayst or canst mind neuter gender nominative objective omitted Parsing Table passions passive voice pause peace Perfect or Passive perfect participle personal pronoun Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive Potential Mood preposition Present Tense proper regular verb active reward says Second Future Tense SECT SEMICOLON sentence shalt or wilt shouldst singular number Subjunctive Mood syllable SYNTAX temperate Tense represents thee thing third person singular Thou art Thou hast thou love Thou mayst Thou mightst tive tree vice virtue virtuous voice vowel wise word Write the following youth
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Page 100 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Page 59 - PUNCTUATION.* PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. , • The...
Page 100 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 101 - Man's happiness, or misery, are in a great measure, put into his own hands. Man is not such a machine as a clock or a watch, which move merely as they are moved.
Page 33 - Thou shall or wilt be. 2. Ye or you shall or will be. 3. -He shall or will be. 3. They shall or will be. Second future Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I shall have been. 1. We shall have been. 2.
Page 29 - The Conjugation of a verb, is the regular combination and arrangement of its several numbers, persons, moods, and tenses. The Conjugation of an active verb is styled the ACTIVE VOICE ; and that of a passive verb, the PASSIVE VOICE.
Page 12 - A SYLLABLE is a sound, either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word: as, a, an, ant. Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables ; or of expressing a word by its proper letters.
Page 12 - A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable, a word of two syllables, a dissyllable; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable.
Page 100 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 20 - In English, the adjective is not varied on account of gender, number, or case. Thus we say, " A careless boy ; careless girls." The only variation which it admits, is that of the degrees of comparison. There are commonly reckoned three degrees of comparison; the POSITIVE, the COMPARATIVE, and the SUPERLATIVE.