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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... the work , it belongs not to him to determine : the whole must be referred to the de- cision of the impartial and judicious reader . Holdgate , near York , 1797 . THE ninth and eleventh editions of this work have been INTRODUCTION . V.
... the work , it belongs not to him to determine : the whole must be referred to the de- cision of the impartial and judicious reader . Holdgate , near York , 1797 . THE ninth and eleventh editions of this work have been INTRODUCTION . V.
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... referred to . A substantive , without any article to limit it , is generally taken in its widest sense ; as , " A candid temper is proper for man ; " that is , for all mankind . SUBSTANTIVE . A Substantive or noun is the name of any ...
... referred to . A substantive , without any article to limit it , is generally taken in its widest sense ; as , " A candid temper is proper for man ; " that is , for all mankind . SUBSTANTIVE . A Substantive or noun is the name of any ...
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... signifying persons of genius . Indexes , when it signifies pointers , or Tables of contents : Indices , when referring to Algebraick quantities . CASE . In English , substantives have three cases , 18 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... signifying persons of genius . Indexes , when it signifies pointers , or Tables of contents : Indices , when referring to Algebraick quantities . CASE . In English , substantives have three cases , 18 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... refers to the nearest person or thing , and that to the more distant ; as , This man is more intelligent than that . " This indicates the lat ter , or last mentioned ; that , the former , or first mentioned ; as , Wealth and poverty are ...
... refers to the nearest person or thing , and that to the more distant ; as , This man is more intelligent than that . " This indicates the lat ter , or last mentioned ; that , the former , or first mentioned ; as , Wealth and poverty are ...
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... refers to what is past , but also conveys an allusion to the present time ; as , 66 I have finished my letter ; " " I have person that was recommended to me . " The perfect tense , and the imperfect tense , both denote a thing that is ...
... refers to what is past , but also conveys an allusion to the present time ; as , 66 I have finished my letter ; " " I have person that was recommended to me . " The perfect tense , and the imperfect tense , both denote a thing that is ...
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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.
Page 4 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
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.