An Abridgment of L. Murray's English Grammar: With Alterations and Improvements : Designed for the Use of the Younger Class of Learners |
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... express its quality ; as , an industri- ous man , a virtuous woman . An Adjective may be known by its making sense with the addition of the word thing ; as , a good thing , a bad thing ; or of any particular fubftantive ; as , a feet ...
... express its quality ; as , an industri- ous man , a virtuous woman . An Adjective may be known by its making sense with the addition of the word thing ; as , a good thing , a bad thing ; or of any particular fubftantive ; as , a feet ...
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... expresses the relation of an agent or actor , or the fubject of a verb ; as , " The boy plays ; " " the girls learn . " The poffeffive cafe expreffes the relation of property or poffeffion ; and has an apostrophe , with the letters ...
... expresses the relation of an agent or actor , or the fubject of a verb ; as , " The boy plays ; " " the girls learn . " The poffeffive cafe expreffes the relation of property or poffeffion ; and has an apostrophe , with the letters ...
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... laft mentioned ; that the former , or first mentioned ; " Wealth and poverty are both temptations ; that tends to excite pride , this difcontent . " as , B The indefinite express their fubjects in an in- definite or ETYMOLOGY . 13.
... laft mentioned ; that the former , or first mentioned ; " Wealth and poverty are both temptations ; that tends to excite pride , this difcontent . " as , B The indefinite express their fubjects in an in- definite or ETYMOLOGY . 13.
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... express their fubjects in an in- definite or general manner . The following are of this kind : fome , other , any , one , all , fuch , & c . ] Other is declined in the following manner . SINGULAR , Nom . Poff . Other . Other's . Obj ...
... express their fubjects in an in- definite or general manner . The following are of this kind : fome , other , any , one , all , fuch , & c . ] Other is declined in the following manner . SINGULAR , Nom . Poff . Other . Other's . Obj ...
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... been . PLURAL . • T. If we had been . 2. If ye or you had been . 3. If they had been . * The prefent tense of the subjunctive , is fometimes ufed to express future time , FIRST FUTURE TENSE . SINGULAR . 1. If I fhall 24 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... been . PLURAL . • T. If we had been . 2. If ye or you had been . 3. If they had been . * The prefent tense of the subjunctive , is fometimes ufed to express future time , FIRST FUTURE TENSE . SINGULAR . 1. If I fhall 24 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
Common terms and phrases
adjective adjuncts adverb alſo becauſe caufe colon comma compariſon COMPOUND PERFECT confifts confonant conjunction connected DEFECTIVE VERBS defire diphthong diſtinguiſhed Engliſh expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feen femicolon fenfe feparated fhalt fhort fhould have loved fhould love fhouldft fign fignifies fimple fentence fingle finite verb fome fometimes fpeech ftudy fubftantive fubject fuch fuperlative fyllable gender houfe Imperative Mode IMPERFECT SINGULAR Indicative Mode Infinitive Mode inftances itfelf lefs LESSON Metonymy moft moſt muft muſt nominative cafe nouns nouns and pronouns objective cafe paffion Perf perfect participle PERFECT TENSE Perfonal pronouns phraſe PLUPERFECT SINGULAR PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number pofitive Potential Mode preffed prepofition PRESENT TENSE refpect REGULAR VERB relative pronoun repreſents requifite RULE SECOND FUTURE TENSE ſhall shalt or wilt Subjunctive Synecdoche tenfe tenſe thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe Thou art Thou mayft Thou mightft Thou shalt ufed uſed verb virtue vowel wife words and phrafes wouldft
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Page 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 57 - Were all books reduced thus to their quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.
Page 43 - When a nominative comes between the relative and the verb, the relative is governed by some word in its own member of the sentence : as, " He who preserves me, to whom I owe my being, whose I am, and whom I serve, is eternal.
Page 31 - They might have been loved. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. Present Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. If I be loved, 1. If we be loved, 2. If thou be loved, 2. If you be loved, 3. If he be loved; 3. If they be loved.
Page 12 - What, is a kind of compound relative, including both the antecedent and the relative, and is equivalent to that which; as "This is what I wanted ;" that is to say,
Page 46 - By the thirteenth rule of syntax, when verbs are used that, in point of time, relate to each other, the order of time should be observed. The imperfect tense visited should, therefore, have been had visited, in the pluperfect tense, representing the.