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Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall , That vice or virtue there is none at all . If white and black blend , soften , and unite A thousand ways , is there no black or white ? " — Pope . LESSON XIII . RULE XIII .
Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall , That vice or virtue there is none at all . If white and black blend , soften , and unite A thousand ways , is there no black or white ? " — Pope . LESSON XIII . RULE XIII .
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action adding adjective adverbs agree animal antecedent applied apposition auxiliary beginning belong called cause classes clause close comma common compared compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant construction definite denotes depends derived diphthong distinguish divided employed English examples EXCEPTION express FALSE figure final frequently gender give given govern grammar idea Imperfect Tense indicative indicative mood infinitive interjection interrogative kind language LESSON letters loved manner meaning merely mood neuter never nominative Note noun or pronoun objective OBSERVATIONS parsing participle particular perfect participle placed plural possessive preceded prefixed preposition Present Tense principal pronoun proper question reading reference regular relation relative represents require RULE says sense sentence separate simple singular singular number sometimes sound speech syllable SYNTAX taken Tense term thee things third person thou Trochaic understood usually verb vowel words Write
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A new English grammar |
| Author | Brandon Turner |
| Published | 1840 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Oct 2, 2006 |
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