English Grammar on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently Adopted in Germany and Switzerland : Designed for Schools and Academies |
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... give a brief account of the different systems which have prevailed there ... example afforded the most atriking evidence that the noblest impulses , not ... example and by his numerous publications , the prejudices and abuses of the age ...
... give a brief account of the different systems which have prevailed there ... example afforded the most atriking evidence that the noblest impulses , not ... example and by his numerous publications , the prejudices and abuses of the age ...
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... Give an example . When proper nouns have an article be- fore them , how are they used ? 303. Give an example . Are proper names used as such in the plural ? 304 . Why cannot proper names have a plu ral ? 304 . NOUNS . 43 as , " The ...
... Give an example . When proper nouns have an article be- fore them , how are they used ? 303. Give an example . Are proper names used as such in the plural ? 304 . Why cannot proper names have a plu ral ? 304 . NOUNS . 43 as , " The ...
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... Give an example . What kind of nouns are Spaniard , Americans , Spaniards ? 304 What effect does the use of articles bave on common nouns ? 305 . What is a noun of multitude , or a col- ective noun ? 306. Give an example . What is an ...
... Give an example . What kind of nouns are Spaniard , Americans , Spaniards ? 304 What effect does the use of articles bave on common nouns ? 305 . What is a noun of multitude , or a col- ective noun ? 306. Give an example . What is an ...
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... Give an example . What does neuter mean ? 23 . What does the neuter gender denote ? 317. Give an example . What is said of nouns naturally neu- ter , in respect to gender ? 318. Give an example . How many genders do nouns have , and ...
... Give an example . What does neuter mean ? 23 . What does the neuter gender denote ? 317. Give an example . What is said of nouns naturally neu- ter , in respect to gender ? 318. Give an example . How many genders do nouns have , and ...
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... Give an example . What does plural mean ? 10 . What does the plural number of nouns imply ? 323. Give an example . How are wheat , gold , & c . used ? 324 . How are bellows , lungs , & c . used ? 325 What is said of deer , sheep , & c ...
... Give an example . What does plural mean ? 10 . What does the plural number of nouns imply ? 323. Give an example . How are wheat , gold , & c . used ? 324 . How are bellows , lungs , & c . used ? 325 What is said of deer , sheep , & c ...
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according to RULE active verb active-transitive verb adjective pronoun adverb agree auxiliary auxiliary verbs better called comma common noun compound conjugate conjunction connected Corresponding with Murray's DEFECTIVE VERBS definite article denote ellipsis EXERCISES IN PARSING EXERCISES IN SYNTAX following sentences future tense genitive Give an example grammarians happy imperative mood imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood interjection James John king Lord loved manner means Murray's Grammar neuter verb nominative Note number and person object PARSED AND CORRECTED participle passive verb Perf perfect person singular phrase pluperfect PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive potential mood preposition Pres present tense relative pronoun repeat RULE VII Rule XV second future second person sense signifies sing singular number sometimes speak subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllables SYNTAX CONTINUED tence tense expresses thing THIRD PERSON tion tive transitive verbs understood virtue vowel William wise word write written
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Page 51 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Page 116 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
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Page 167 - This is an idiom to which our language is strongly inclined ; it prevails in common conversation, and suits very well with the familiar style in writing : but the placing of the preposition before the relative, is more graceful, as well as more perspicuous, and agrees much, better with the solemn and elevated style.
Page 185 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Page 184 - He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I...
Page 191 - A divine legislator, uttering his voice from heaven ; an almighty governor, stretching forth his arm to punish or reward ; informing us of perpetual rest prepared hereafter for the righteous, and of indignation and wrath awaiting the wicked : these are the considerations which overawe the world, which support integrity, and check guilt.
Page 168 - The wisest princes need not think it any diminution to their greatness, or derogation to their sufficiency, to rely upon counsel. God himself is not without, but hath made it one of the great names of his blessed Son : The Counsellor. Solomon hath pronounced that in counsel is stability.
Page 117 - KGCAGE, in the proper sense of the word, signifies the expression of our ideas, and their various relations, by certain articulate sounds, which are used as the signs of those ideas and relations.
Page 21 - Lupin was, comforted by the mere voice and presence of such a man; and, though he had merely said 'a verb must agree with its nominative case in number and person...