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The Examples and Obfervations above may be fufficient to direct a Learner how to place the Words of eve ry Kind of English Verse, so as to make the Verse capable of being read without Offence to the Ear: And this is all that is required from Grammatic Technical Profody. The Elegancies of Verfification must be acquired by observing that of the best Poets, with the Affistance of a good Ear, much Attention, and repeated Trials.

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The Examples and Obfervations above may be fufficient to direct a Learner how to place the Words of every Kind of English Verse, so as to make the Verfe capable of being read without Offence to the Ear: And this is all that is required from Grammatic Technical Profody. The Elegancies of Verfification must be acquired by obferving that of the best Poets, with the Affiftance of a good Ear, much Attention, and repeated Trials.

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A PRAXIS to the GRAMMAR.

Shewing how the Rules may be applied in refolving the English Language, fo as to account for the feveral Modes of Construction which are used in

it.

Leffon 1. Genefis, Chap. 1.

Ver. 1. TN the Beginning God created the Heaven

2.

I

and Earth.

And the Earth was without Form and

void, and Darkness was upon the Face of the Deep And the Spirit of Gop moved upon the Face of the Waters.

3. And God faid, Let there be Light, and there was Light.

4. And God faw the Light, that it was good: And God divided the Light from the Dark

nefs.

5. And God called the Light Day, and the Darknefs he called Night: And the Evening and the Morning were the first Day.

Refolution.

Ver. 1. In the Beginning. Noun Subftantive of the Ablative Cafe, Singular Number, and governed of the Verb created. By Rule 21. Page 108.

X 2

Containing

Containing Objects in Dependence feen

On Nouns or Verbs, claim Ablatives by in. For the Beginning is here conceived to determine a Period of Time, which comprehends or contains the Creation of the World. The is the Definite Article, and fhews that the Beginning here spoken of, is not any Beginning, but the particular Beginning of all created Things. See Page 40.

God. Noun Subftantive, Nominative Cafe, Singular Number, and third Perfon, (for here God neither speaks, nor is spoken to. See Pages 32 and 88) and comes before the Verb created.

Created. Verb Active Regular of the Indicative Mood, firft Preter Tenfe, Singular Number, and third Perfon, and agrees with the Nominative, God, by the first Concord, which is Rule VII. Page 87.

In perfonal Construction Verbs receive

Number and Perfon from a Nom'native.

For had the Verb been createdft, the Expreffion would have been false Concord; because God is here of the third Person, and Createdft is of the second.

The Heaven. Accusative Case Singular Number, and depends on the Verb tranfitive created.

Heaven is in the Paffive State was created.

Rule XVI. Page 102.

For here the

This is by

The Active Verbs their Paffive States transfer
On Nouns which in th'Accufative appear.

The is the Definite Article, fhewing that the Heaven fpoken of is determined; as there is but one Heaven in the Creation.

And. Conjunction copulative. See Pages 74

and 75.

The

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