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... SUBJUNCTIVE Mood is that form of the rb in which the assertion is expressed as an uncer- nty . 217. The Subjunctive mood is generally preceded by a con- nction , such as if , though , although , unless , except , whether , or l . 218 ...
... SUBJUNCTIVE Mood is that form of the rb in which the assertion is expressed as an uncer- nty . 217. The Subjunctive mood is generally preceded by a con- nction , such as if , though , although , unless , except , whether , or l . 218 ...
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... Subjunctive and Potential ds , see Appendix 17 . REMARKS ON THE MOODS AND TENSES . The Number of the Tenses in the Different Moods . - The cative and Subjunctive Moods have all six of the tenses ; Potential has four , the Present , Past ...
... Subjunctive and Potential ds , see Appendix 17 . REMARKS ON THE MOODS AND TENSES . The Number of the Tenses in the Different Moods . - The cative and Subjunctive Moods have all six of the tenses ; Potential has four , the Present , Past ...
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... Subjunctive Moods . - The liaries might , could , would , and should , are often used as ressing the primary meaning ... Subjunctive Mood by transposing the ninative and the Verb . - Any verb in the past tense may be dered subjunctive in ...
... Subjunctive Moods . - The liaries might , could , would , and should , are often used as ressing the primary meaning ... Subjunctive Mood by transposing the ninative and the Verb . - Any verb in the past tense may be dered subjunctive in ...
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... SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD . NOTE . The Subjunctive Mood of the verb To be has two forms . The first is called the Regular form , and is continued through all the six tenses . The other is called the Subjunctive form , and is used only in the ...
... SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD . NOTE . The Subjunctive Mood of the verb To be has two forms . The first is called the Regular form , and is continued through all the six tenses . The other is called the Subjunctive form , and is used only in the ...
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... Subjunctive mood , the conjunc- tion before the verb may be if , though , although , unless , except , whether , or lest . ( See Art . 217. ) For convenience in learning , only one conjunction is used . EXERCISE . - Conjugate the verb ...
... Subjunctive mood , the conjunc- tion before the verb may be if , though , although , unless , except , whether , or lest . ( See Art . 217. ) For convenience in learning , only one conjunction is used . EXERCISE . - Conjugate the verb ...
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Page 172 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 138 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
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Page 172 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
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Page 159 - Caravan, complaisant, violin, repartee, referee, privateer, domineer," may all have the greater stress on the first, and the less on the last syllable, without any violent offence to the ear : nay, it may be asserted, that the principal accent on the first syllable of these words, and none at all on the last, though certainly improper, has nothing in it grating or discordant ; but placing an accent on the second syllable of these words would entirely derange them, and produce great harshness and...
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.