Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar: With an Appendix, Containing Exercises in Orthography, in Parsing, in Syntax, and in Punctuation. Designed for the Younger Classes of Learners |
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... govern the cases of nouns and pronouns , in the same manner as verbs do ; and therefore should be comprehended in the general name of verbs . There are three Participles , the Present or Ac- tive , the Perfect or Passive , and the ...
... govern the cases of nouns and pronouns , in the same manner as verbs do ; and therefore should be comprehended in the general name of verbs . There are three Participles , the Present or Ac- tive , the Perfect or Passive , and the ...
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... governs his passions . " Here , a wise man is the subject ; governs , the attribute , or thing affirmed ; and his passions , the object . Syntax principally consists of two parts , Con- cord and Government . Concord is the agreement ...
... governs his passions . " Here , a wise man is the subject ; governs , the attribute , or thing affirmed ; and his passions , the object . Syntax principally consists of two parts , Con- cord and Government . Concord is the agreement ...
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... 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 . " App . 1. When both the antecedent and the relative become no- minatives ...
... 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 . " App . 1. When both the antecedent and the relative become no- minatives ...
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... governs another signifying a different thing , in the possessive or genitive case as , " My father's house ; " " Man's happiness ; " " Virtue's reward . " App . 1. Substantives govern pronouns as well as nouns in the possessive case ...
... governs another signifying a different thing , in the possessive or genitive case as , " My father's house ; " " Man's happiness ; " " Virtue's reward . " App . 1. Substantives govern pronouns as well as nouns in the possessive case ...
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... governs the genitive be expressed ; as , The emperour Leopold's ; ' Dionysius the tyrant's ; " " For David my ... govern , nouns and pronouns . " He sleeps ; they muse ; " & c . are not transitive , and therefore not followed by ...
... governs the genitive be expressed ; as , The emperour Leopold's ; ' Dionysius the tyrant's ; " " For David my ... govern , nouns and pronouns . " He sleeps ; they muse ; " & c . are not transitive , and therefore not followed by ...
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66 Note active verb Adjective Pronouns adverb antecedent auxiliary better comma conjunction connected Copulative DEFECTIVE VERBS denote Diphthong ellipsis English Exercises following verbs frequently genitive govern verbs Grammar happy hast hath honour Imperative Mood Imperfect Tense improperly indicative mood infinitive mood Interjections Irregular Verbs king live manner mayst or canst nominative noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns number and person objective omitted Orthography Parsing passions passive verb pause perfect participle personal pronoun phrase Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive Potential Mood preposition Present Tense relative pronoun respect reward RULE VIII Rule XII Second Future Tense second person SECT semicolon sense shalt or wilt shouldst signifies singular number sometimes sound subjunctive mood syllable thing Thou art Thou hadst thou love Thou mayst Thou mightst thou shalt tion tive mood verb active verb neuter vice virtue voice vowel wise word wouldst Write the following
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Page 79 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 115 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 116 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 114 - Order is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, 50 More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
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Page 75 - When words are placed in opposition to each other, or with some marked variety, they require to be distinguished by a comma: as, " Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full.
Page 115 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Page 30 - The Conjugation of a verb, is the regular combination and arrangement of its several numbers, persons, moods, and tenses. The Conjugation of an active verb is styled the ACTIVE VOICE ; and that of a passive verb, the PASSIVE VOICE.