Conversations on English Grammar: Explaining the Principles and Rules of the Language : Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises : Abridged, and Adapted to the Use of Schools |
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... singular number , and the plural number . When a word is the name of one person or thing , it is of the singular number ; when it denotes more than one , it is of the plural number . Thus , when I say , The man walks among the trees ...
... singular number , and the plural number . When a word is the name of one person or thing , it is of the singular number ; when it denotes more than one , it is of the plural number . Thus , when I say , The man walks among the trees ...
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... singular num- ber , of feminine gender ; and books is a noun of the third per- son , plural number , of neuter gender . Nouns have three cases ; the Nominative case , the Posses- sive case , and the Objective case . Case is the ...
... singular num- ber , of feminine gender ; and books is a noun of the third per- son , plural number , of neuter gender . Nouns have three cases ; the Nominative case , the Posses- sive case , and the Objective case . Case is the ...
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... singular number , just like the nom- inative box . If the nominative case , or the actor , is of the singular number , the verb must also be of the singular num- ber . And the verb must also be of the same person that the nominative ...
... singular number , just like the nom- inative box . If the nominative case , or the actor , is of the singular number , the verb must also be of the singular num- ber . And the verb must also be of the same person that the nominative ...
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... singular number , and agrees with its nominative case smoke . A verb must agree , & c . Now , parse this sentence several times , till the manner of parsing it is quite familiar to you , and then parse the following sentences ...
... singular number , and agrees with its nominative case smoke . A verb must agree , & c . Now , parse this sentence several times , till the manner of parsing it is quite familiar to you , and then parse the following sentences ...
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... singular number . The noun means is used both in the singular and the plural number .. As a general rule for the use of the word means , as either singular or plural , it would render the construction less vague , and the expression ...
... singular number . The noun means is used both in the singular and the plural number .. As a general rule for the use of the word means , as either singular or plural , it would render the construction less vague , and the expression ...
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Page 276 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 157 - Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill.
Page 157 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 155 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, ^all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
Page 235 - All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable.
Page 157 - Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that, no action could attend, And but for this, were active to no end : Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteorlike, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroyed.
Page 158 - And each vacuity of sense by Pride : These build as fast as Knowledge can destroy; In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy; One prospect lost, another still we gain, And not a vanity is given in vain: Even mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure others
Page 224 - Angels, which are spirits immaterial and intellectual, the glorious inhabitants of those sacred palaces, where nothing but light and blessed immortality, no shadow of matter for tears, discontentments, griefs, and uncomfortable passions to work upon, but all joy, tranquillity, and peace, even for ever and ever doth dwell...
Page 156 - The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 21 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel: as, wit, witty; thin, thinnish ; to abet, an abettor ; to begin, a beginner.