Hart's English Grammar: A Grammar of the English LanguageJ.H.Butler & Company, 1873 |
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accent according to Note according to Rule active voice Adjective Pronouns adverb Anapæst antecedent apostrophe Appendix apposition assertion auxiliary belongs called clause comma Compound Relatives Conjugate conjunction connected consonant Correct the sentence Dactylic diphthong distinguished ellipsis English example EXERCISES express father feminine following sentences foregoing sentences form the plural gender governed Grammar Iambic idea Imperative mood indefinitely INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood interrogation intransitive James writes John language loved manner masculine meaning MODEL FOR PARSING neuter nominative noun objective omitted passive voice Past Tense Perfect Participle Perfect Tense Personal Pronouns Pluperfect Tense Plural Poss possessive Potential mood preceded prefixing preposition Present Tense qualifies Quote Note Relative Pronouns sense signifies sing singular number sometimes sound speech Subjunctive mood superlative Syntax termination thing third person tive transitive verb Trisyllables Trochaic Trochee usage verse vowel words writes a letter written wrote
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Page 173 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
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Page 167 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 154 - For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Page 139 - And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: 18. Where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one. and Jesus in the midst.
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Page 166 - Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours : and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine ; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.