Rudimental Lessons in Etymology and Syntax: In which These Two Parts of Grammar are Exhibited in Parallel Columns : Carelfuly Adapted to the Capacity of Young Learners |
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... proper method , after the first rudiments are generally understood . A conviction that these Parts might be studied , at first , to much greater advantage in connexion , than detached , induced me to make the following essay which is so ...
... proper method , after the first rudiments are generally understood . A conviction that these Parts might be studied , at first , to much greater advantage in connexion , than detached , induced me to make the following essay which is so ...
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... proper- ty or condition.t A noun in the pos- sessive case has an ap- ostrophe , and generally s , added to it . Ex . " My father's virtue . " When the plural ends in s , or the singular in ss , the apostrophic s is not added . Ex . " My ...
... proper- ty or condition.t A noun in the pos- sessive case has an ap- ostrophe , and generally s , added to it . Ex . " My father's virtue . " When the plural ends in s , or the singular in ss , the apostrophic s is not added . Ex . " My ...
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... proper or common . Proper nouns are the names appropriated to individuals ; as , Lon- don , Thames , George . Common nouns stand for kinds containing many sorts , or for sorts containing many indi- viduals under them ; as , animal , man ...
... proper or common . Proper nouns are the names appropriated to individuals ; as , Lon- don , Thames , George . Common nouns stand for kinds containing many sorts , or for sorts containing many indi- viduals under them ; as , animal , man ...
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... proper to use intransitive verbs in this form ; as , " I am musing . ' 99 In the present and imperfect tenses , of the indicative and subjunctive moods , we prefix the auxiliaries do and did , when we mean to ex- press energy as , " I ...
... proper to use intransitive verbs in this form ; as , " I am musing . ' 99 In the present and imperfect tenses , of the indicative and subjunctive moods , we prefix the auxiliaries do and did , when we mean to ex- press energy as , " I ...
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... proper ; and so constructed as to violate no rule of syntax ; yet , even then his style may have great faults . in PERSPICUITY Is a fundamental quality of style a quality so essential every kind of writing , that for want of it nothing ...
... proper ; and so constructed as to violate no rule of syntax ; yet , even then his style may have great faults . in PERSPICUITY Is a fundamental quality of style a quality so essential every kind of writing , that for want of it nothing ...
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action or event action or existence adjective belongs adverb Auxiliaries common noun conjugation conjunctive pronoun connect words couldst derstood descriptive adjective distinc Etymology and Syntax Examples express action feminine Figures of Speech gender IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect indicative mood Infinitive Mood intransitive verb ject jective John's learner learning love the Truth MANASSEH ROBBINS masculine nominative noun or pronoun noun reward nouns and pronouns Nouns ending numbers belong objective case signifies Perfect Participle perfect sentence Perfect Tense person and number persons or things Pluperfect Tense plural by changing plural number Poss POTENTIAL MOOD prefixed preposition Present Tense principal verb pronominal adjec property or condition qualifies the verb rule Second Future Tense shouldst show the relation signifies the object singular number spoken SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD tence Tense represents Theism third person Thou mayst Thou mightst Thou wilt ticiple tion tive transitive verb must act walk wise