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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... This Figure of Speech is called Personification or Prosopopeia , and is that figure by which we attribute life and action to inanimate objects . Editor . Prince . Prior . Princess . Tiger . Prioress . 16 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... This Figure of Speech is called Personification or Prosopopeia , and is that figure by which we attribute life and action to inanimate objects . Editor . Prince . Prior . Princess . Tiger . Prioress . 16 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... action , or of a relation ; and generally follows a verb active , or a preposition ; as , " John assists Charles ; " " They live in London . " English substantives are declined in the following manner : Singular . Nominative Case . A ...
... action , or of a relation ; and generally follows a verb active , or a preposition ; as , " John assists Charles ; " " They live in London . " English substantives are declined in the following manner : Singular . Nominative Case . A ...
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... action , and necessarily implies an agent , and , an object act- ed upon ; as , to love ; " I love Penel'ope . " A Verb Active - intransitive expresses an action , which is confined to the agent , without affecting any particular object ...
... action , and necessarily implies an agent , and , an object act- ed upon ; as , to love ; " I love Penel'ope . " A Verb Active - intransitive expresses an action , which is confined to the agent , without affecting any particular object ...
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... action , or passion , is represented . There are five moods of verbs , the Indicative , the Imperative , the Potential , the Subjunctive , and the Infinitive . The Indicative Mood simply indicates or de- clares a thing ; as , " He loves ...
... action , or passion , is represented . There are five moods of verbs , the Indicative , the Imperative , the Potential , the Subjunctive , and the Infinitive . The Indicative Mood simply indicates or de- clares a thing ; as , " He loves ...
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... actions , and govern the cases of nouns and pronouns , in the same manner as verbs do ; and therefore should be comprehended in the general name of verbs . There are three Participles , the Present or Ac- tive , the Perfect or Passive ...
... actions , and govern the cases of nouns and pronouns , in the same manner as verbs do ; and therefore should be comprehended in the general name of verbs . There are three Participles , the Present or Ac- tive , the Perfect or Passive ...
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66 Note active verb Adjective Pronouns adverb antecedent auxiliary better comma conjunction connected Copulative DEFECTIVE VERBS denote Diphthong ellipsis English Exercises following verbs frequently genitive govern verbs Grammar happy hast hath honour Imperative Mood Imperfect Tense improperly indicative mood infinitive mood Interjections Irregular Verbs king live manner mayst or canst nominative noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns number and person objective omitted Orthography Parsing passions passive verb pause perfect participle personal pronoun phrase Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive Potential Mood preposition Present Tense relative pronoun respect reward RULE VIII Rule XII Second Future Tense second person SECT semicolon sense shalt or wilt shouldst signifies singular number sometimes sound subjunctive mood syllable thing Thou art Thou hadst thou love Thou mayst Thou mightst thou shalt tion tive mood verb active verb neuter vice virtue voice vowel wise word wouldst Write the following
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