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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... SYLLABLES . A syllable is a sound either simple or compound- ed , pronounced by a single impulse of the voice , and constituting a word , or part of a word ; as , a , an , ant . Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their ...
... SYLLABLES . A syllable is a sound either simple or compound- ed , pronounced by a single impulse of the voice , and constituting a word , or part of a word ; as , a , an , ant . Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their ...
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... syllable is termed a monosyllable , a word of two syllables , a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables , a trisyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables , a polysyllable . All words are either primitive or derivative . A primitive ...
... syllable is termed a monosyllable , a word of two syllables , a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables , a trisyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables , a polysyllable . All words are either primitive or derivative . A primitive ...
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... syllable , change it into ies in the plural ; as , beauty , beauties ; fly , flies ; but the y is not changed , when there is another vowel in the syllable ; as , key , keys ; delay , delays . The following words which have been adopted ...
... syllable , change it into ies in the plural ; as , beauty , beauties ; fly , flies ; but the y is not changed , when there is another vowel in the syllable ; as , key , keys ; delay , delays . The following words which have been adopted ...
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... syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it . It is considered as long or short . A vowel or syllable is long , when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to be slowly join- ed , in pronunciation , to the ...
... syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it . It is considered as long or short . A vowel or syllable is long , when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to be slowly join- ed , in pronunciation , to the ...
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... syllables , according to cer- tain laws . Rhyme is the correspondence of the last sound of one verse , to the last sound or syllable of another . PUNCTUATION . PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences , or ...
... syllables , according to cer- tain laws . Rhyme is the correspondence of the last sound of one verse , to the last sound or syllable of another . PUNCTUATION . PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences , or ...
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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.