Abridgement 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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Abridgment according acted action active adjective Adverb agree animals Beauty comes common comparative Compound Conjugate conjunction connect correspondent derived divided English Exercises express following verbs frequently Future Tense gender give governed Grammar happy heart honour hope Imperfect Tense improve indicative mood industrious kind language larger less letter live loved manner marked mind nature neuter nominative nouns objective omitted Parsing particular Pass passions passive peace Perfect perfect participle personal pronoun Pluperfect Plural possessive preposition Present Tense pronoun proper regular relation relative repeated require respect reward rich RULE says SECT sense sentence short shouldst Singular sometimes sorts sound speech subjunctive mood substantive syllable Syntax temper thing third person Thou Thou art tion tree true verb vice virtue voice vowel wise woman word Write the following
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| Title | Abridgement 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 |
| Author | Lindley Murray |
| Edition | 19 |
| Publisher | Russell Hubbard, 1809 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 5, 2007 |
| Length | 107 pages |
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