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Page xi
... principal defign of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to exprefs ourselves with propriety in that Language ; and to en- able us to judge of every phrase and form of conftruction , whether it be right or not . The plain way of ...
... principal defign of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to exprefs ourselves with propriety in that Language ; and to en- able us to judge of every phrase and form of conftruction , whether it be right or not . The plain way of ...
Page xii
With Critical Notes Robert Lowth. Befide this principal Defign of Grammar in our own Language , there is a fecondary ufe to which it may be applied , and which , I think , is not attended to as it deferves ; the facilitating of the ...
With Critical Notes Robert Lowth. Befide this principal Defign of Grammar in our own Language , there is a fecondary ufe to which it may be applied , and which , I think , is not attended to as it deferves ; the facilitating of the ...
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... principal Auxiliaries , to have and to be , are thus varied , according to Perfon , Num- ber , Time , and Mode . Time is Prefent , Paft , or Future . TO HAVE . Perfon . 1. I have , Prefent Time . Indicative Mode . We Ye have . They 2 ...
... principal Auxiliaries , to have and to be , are thus varied , according to Perfon , Num- ber , Time , and Mode . Time is Prefent , Paft , or Future . TO HAVE . Perfon . 1. I have , Prefent Time . Indicative Mode . We Ye have . They 2 ...
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... principal part of the Verbs belonging to each of which Conjugations refpectively the three different Terminations of the Participle might be the Characteristics .. Such of the con- tracted Verbs , as have their Participles now ending in ...
... principal part of the Verbs belonging to each of which Conjugations refpectively the three different Terminations of the Participle might be the Characteristics .. Such of the con- tracted Verbs , as have their Participles now ending in ...
Page 99
... PRINCIPAL PARTS of a Simple Sentence are the Agent , the Attribute , and the Object . The Agent is the thing chiefly spoken of ; the Attribute is the thing or action affirmed or de- nied of it ; and the Object is the thing affected by ...
... PRINCIPAL PARTS of a Simple Sentence are the Agent , the Attribute , and the Object . The Agent is the thing chiefly spoken of ; the Attribute is the thing or action affirmed or de- nied of it ; and the Object is the thing affected by ...
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Abfolute Addifon Adjective Adverb alfo alſo anſwer Article Auxiliary Verb becauſe beft Bentley Caſe Compariſon confonant conftruction Conjunction diftinction diftinguiſhed diphthong diſcourſe Dryden Effay English example expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feems fenfe fhall fignifies firft firſt fitten fome fometimes ftand ftantive ftill ftyle fuch fupplied fyllable Gender governed Grammar hath himſelf Ibid Iliad improperly Indicative Mode Infinitive Mode inftances inftead Irregular Irregular Verbs itſelf laft Language Letter likewife manner Milton miſtake moft moſt muft Neuter Nominative Cafe Noun obferved Objective Cafe paffion Paffive Paft Participle pauſes Phrafe phraſe Plural Number Poffeffive Cafe Pope Pref Prefent Prepofition Pronominal Adjectives Pronoun purpoſe reafon refpect reft Saxon ſeems Sentence Serm Shakspeare ſhould ſome ſpoken Subftantive Subjunctive Subjunctive Mode ſuch Swift tence thee thefe themſelves theſe thing third Perfon Singular thofe thoſe thou tive underſtood uſed Verb Active Verb Neuter vowel whofe words
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