Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar: With an Appendix, Containing Exercises in Orthography, in Parsing, in Syntax, and in Punctuation |
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... 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 ; or of expressing a word by its ...
... 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 ; or of expressing a word by its ...
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... simple word , or positive , becomes the com- parative , by adding r or er ; and the superlative , by adding st or est , to the end of it ; as , wise , wiser , wisest ; great , greater , greatest . And the adverbs more and most , placed ...
... simple word , or positive , becomes the com- parative , by adding r or er ; and the superlative , by adding st or est , to the end of it ; as , wise , wiser , wisest ; great , greater , greatest . And the adverbs more and most , placed ...
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... simple tenses , which are formed of the principal , without an auxiliary verb ; as , I love , I loved . " The compound tenses are such as cannot be formed without an auxiliary verb ; as , " I have loved ; I had loved ; I shall or will ...
... simple tenses , which are formed of the principal , without an auxiliary verb ; as , I love , I loved . " The compound tenses are such as cannot be formed without an auxiliary verb ; as , " I have loved ; I had loved ; I shall or will ...
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... SIMPLE and COM- POUND . A simple sentence has in it but one subject , and one finite verb ; as , " Life is short . " A compound sentence consists of two or more simple sentences connected together ; as , " Life is 48 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... SIMPLE and COM- POUND . A simple sentence has in it but one subject , and one finite verb ; as , " Life is short . " A compound sentence consists of two or more simple sentences connected together ; as , " Life is 48 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... simple sentences connected together ; as , " Life is short , and art is long ; " " Idleness produces want , vice , and misery . ” ; ' A phrase is two or more words rightly put to- gether , making sometimes part of a sentence , and ...
... simple sentences connected together ; as , " Life is short , and art is long ; " " Idleness produces want , vice , and misery . ” ; ' A phrase is two or more words rightly put to- gether , making sometimes part of a sentence , and ...
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active verb Adjective Pronouns adverb antecedent auxiliary comma Compound Perfect Conjugate the following conjunction connected copulative DEFECTIVE VERBS denote Diphthong ellipsis English Exercises following verbs frequently genitive govern verbs Grammar hadst happy hath honour Imperative Mood Imperfect Tense improperly indicative mood infinitive mood Interjections Irregular Verbs king letter live manner mayst or canst nominative noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns number and person 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 SECT semicolon shalt or wilt shouldst signifies singular number sometimes subjunctive mood syllable thing Thou art Thou hast 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 15 - Gender. GENDER is the distinction of nouns, with regard to sex. There are three genders, the MASCULINE, the FEMININE, and the NEUTER. The Masculine Gender denotes animals of the male kind : as, a man, a horse, a bull.
Page 21 - A Pronoun is a word used instead of a noun, to avoid the too frequent repetition of the same word ; as, the man is happy, he is benevolent, he is useful.
Page 55 - For when a man declares in autumn, when he is eating them, or in spring, when there are none, that he loves grapes...
Page 13 - A Conjunction is a part of speech that is chiefly used to connect sentences; so as, out of two or more sentences, to make but one; it sometimes connects only words; as, " Thou and he are happy, because you are good.
Page 73 - PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require.
Page 13 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
Page 67 - If there be but one body of legislators, it is no better than a tyranny ; if there are only two, there will want a casting voice...
Page 9 - ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ENGLISH GRAMMAR is the art of speaking and writing the English Language with propriety.
Page 37 - FUTURE TENSE. SINGULAR. PLURAL. 1. I shall or will love. 1. We shall or will love. 2. Thou shalt or wilt love. 2.
Page 78 - The propriety of using a colon, or semicolon, is sometimes determined by a conjunction's being expressed, or not expressed : as, " Do not flatter yourselves with the hope of perfect happiness : there is no such thing in the world.