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... speaking and writing the English language with propriety . 2. It is divided into four parts , viz . Orthogra- phy , Etymology , Syntax , and Prosody . 3. Orthography teaches the nature and powers of letters , and the just method of ...
... speaking and writing the English language with propriety . 2. It is divided into four parts , viz . Orthogra- phy , Etymology , Syntax , and Prosody . 3. Orthography teaches the nature and powers of letters , and the just method of ...
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... speaking , or first person , em- ploys the pronoun instead of the noun ; consequent- ly nouns have no first person . They have two persons only ; and they are all of the third ... speak of or about a thing , it is in the 24 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... speaking , or first person , em- ploys the pronoun instead of the noun ; consequent- ly nouns have no first person . They have two persons only ; and they are all of the third ... speak of or about a thing , it is in the 24 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... speak to it , it is in the second . OF 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 ...
... speak to it , it is in the second . OF 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 ...
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... speak of himself ; secondly , he may speak of the person to whom he addresses himself ; thirdly , he may speak of some other per- son ; and as the speakers , the person spoken to , and the other persons spoken of , may be many , so each ...
... speak of himself ; secondly , he may speak of the person to whom he addresses himself ; thirdly , he may speak of some other per- son ; and as the speakers , the person spoken to , and the other persons spoken of , may be many , so each ...
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... speaking ; as , One ought to pity the distresses of mankind : One is apt to love one's self . This word is often used by good writers in the plural number ; as , The great ones of the world : The boy wounded the old bird , and stole the ...
... speaking ; as , One ought to pity the distresses of mankind : One is apt to love one's self . This word is often used by good writers in the plural number ; as , The great ones of the world : The boy wounded the old bird , and stole the ...
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adjective pronoun agrees antecedent auxiliary auxiliary verb Compound perfect conjugated conjunction connected Defective verbs definite article derived from substantives ellipsis examples expressed or understood feminine following sentences gender govern an objective grammar grammarians happy hath IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect Tense imply indefinite indicative mood infinitive mood interjection interrogative intransitive jective kind latter loved manner masculine mayst or canst meaning moods and tenses neuter nominative noun or pronoun number and person parse participial noun particular passive verb perfect participle personal pronouns persons or things phrase Pluperfect Tense plural number Poss potential mood preposition Present Tense proper property or possession reference relative pronoun Second Future Tense second person sense shows the relation signify singular number speak subjunctive mood supplies the place tence tense represents termination third person Thou art Thou hast Thou mayst Thou mightst tion tive transitive verb wise writing
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Page 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ; " and also to an act. entitled, " An act, supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietor? of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 150 - So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 150 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 100 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 161 - WISDOM crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets : she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Page 130 - There appears to be, in general, equal reason for repeating the nominative, and resuming the subject, when the course of the sentence is diverted by a change of the mood or tense. The following sentences may therefore be improved. " Anger glances into the breast of a wise man, but will rest only in the bosom of fools ;" " but rests only ;" or, " but it ivill rest only." " Virtue is praised by many, and would be desired also, if her worth were really known ;"
Page 52 - Of the Tenses. TENSE, being the distinction of time, might seem to admit only of the present, past, and future; b.ut to mark it more accurately, it is made to consist of six variations, viz. the PRESENT, the IMPERFECT, the PERFECT, the PLUPERFECT, and the FIRST and SECOND FUTURE TENSES. The Present Tense represents an action or event, as passing at the time in which it is mentioned : as, " I rule ; I am ruled ; I think ; I fear.
Page 54 - In general, the perfect tense may be applied wherever the action is connected with the present time, by the actual existence, either of the author, or of the work, though it may have been performed many centuries ago ; but if neither the author nor the work now remains, it cannot be used. We may say,
Page 100 - As sentences themselves are divided into simple and compound, so the members of sentences may be divided likewise into simple and compound members : for whole sentences, whether simple or compounded, may become members of other sentences, by means of some additional connexion ; as in the following example : " The ox knoweih his owner, and the ass his master's crib ; but Israel doth not know, my people do not consider.
Page 148 - Pampered by continual indulgence, all our passions will become mutinous and headstrong. Desire, not reason, will be the ruling principle of our conduct.