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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... preceded by a conjunction , expressed or under- stood , and attended by another verb ; as , I will respect him , though he chide me ; " " Were he good , he would be happy : " that is , " if he were good . " The Infinitive Mood expresses ...
... preceded by a conjunction , expressed or under- stood , and attended by another verb ; as , I will respect him , though he chide me ; " " Were he good , he would be happy : " that is , " if he were good . " The Infinitive Mood expresses ...
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... preceded by the words when , before , after , as soon as , & c . is sometimes used to point out the relative time of a future action ; as , " When he arrives he will hear the news ; " " He will hear the news before he arrives , or as ...
... preceded by the words when , before , after , as soon as , & c . is sometimes used to point out the relative time of a future action ; as , " When he arrives he will hear the news ; " " He will hear the news before he arrives , or as ...
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... preceded by the words when , after , as soon as , & c . is often used to denote the relative time of a future action ; as , " When I have finished my letter , I will attend to his request ; " " I will attend to the business , as soon as ...
... preceded by the words when , after , as soon as , & c . is often used to denote the relative time of a future action ; as , " When I have finished my letter , I will attend to his request ; " " I will attend to the business , as soon as ...
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... preceded by the adverbs , here , there , then , thence , hence , thus , & c .; as , " Here am I ; " " There was he slain ; " " Then cometh the end ; " " Thence ariseth his grief ; " " Hence proceeds his anger ; " " Thus was the affair ...
... preceded by the adverbs , here , there , then , thence , hence , thus , & c .; as , " Here am I ; " " There was he slain ; " " Then cometh the end ; " " Thence ariseth his grief ; " " Hence proceeds his anger ; " " Thus was the affair ...
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... precede the things which they represent ; as , " If a man declares in autumn , when he is eating them , or in spring when ... preceded by two nomina- tives of different persons , the relative and verb may agree in person with either ...
... precede the things which they represent ; as , " If a man declares in autumn , when he is eating them , or in spring when ... preceded by two nomina- tives of different persons , the relative and verb may agree in person with either ...
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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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Page 79 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 115 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 116 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 114 - Order is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, 50 More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
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Page 34 - FUTURE TENSE. SINGULAR. PLURAL. 1. I shall have been. 1. We shall have been. 2.
Page 75 - When words are placed in opposition to each other, or with some marked variety, they require to be distinguished by a comma: as, " Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full.
Page 115 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 117 - 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 30 - 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.