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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... considered the naming or leading noun , in what case is John , when I say , " Johu strikes " ? 51. In the nominative case . Q. What , then , is the nominative case of nouns ? 52. The nominative case is the agent or doer . Q. When I say ...
... considered the naming or leading noun , in what case is John , when I say , " Johu strikes " ? 51. In the nominative case . Q. What , then , is the nominative case of nouns ? 52. The nominative case is the agent or doer . Q. When I say ...
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... considered a rule for governing the possessive case ? RULE I. The possessive case is governed by the following noun . Q. " William's hat . " Is William's a proper or common noun ? Why ? ( 36 . ) * Q. What is its person ? why ? ( 45 ...
... considered a rule for governing the possessive case ? RULE I. The possessive case is governed by the following noun . Q. " William's hat . " Is William's a proper or common noun ? Why ? ( 36 . ) * Q. What is its person ? why ? ( 45 ...
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... considered as variations of the nominative singular . Q. To which of the pronouns is it customary to apply gender ? 135. To the third person singular , he , she , it . Q. Why are not the first and second persons each made always to ...
... considered as variations of the nominative singular . Q. To which of the pronouns is it customary to apply gender ? 135. To the third person singular , he , she , it . Q. Why are not the first and second persons each made always to ...
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... considered , do not have person and number : why , then , are they said to have these properties at all ? 160. On account of the connection which they have with their agents or nominatives . Q. We say , I write , " and " He writes ...
... considered , do not have person and number : why , then , are they said to have these properties at all ? 160. On account of the connection which they have with their agents or nominatives . Q. We say , I write , " and " He writes ...
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... considered to be in the potential mood , a name , as we have seen , peculiar only to that form of the verb which implies power ? 214. To prevent multiplying moods to a great and almost numberless extent . Q. What , then , does the ...
... considered to be in the potential mood , a name , as we have seen , peculiar only to that form of the verb which implies power ? 214. To prevent multiplying moods to a great and almost numberless extent . Q. What , then , does the ...
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according to RULE active verb adjective pronoun adverb agrees applied auxiliaries auxiliary verbs better called comma common noun compound conjugate conjunction connected Corresponding with Murray's defective verb definite article denote ellipsis EXERCISES IN PARSING EXERCISES IN SYNTAX following sentences future tense genitive Give an example governed happy imperative mood imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood interjection intransitive James John king loved manner means Murray's Grammar neuter verb nominative Note number and person objective PARSED AND CORRECTED passive verb Perf perfect participle personal pronoun phrase PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive potential mood preposition Pres present tense relative pronoun repeat RULE VI RULE VII Rule XV second future second person sense signifies sing singular number sometimes speak subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllable SYNTAX CONTINUED tence thing Thou art tion tive transitive verbs virtue vowel William wise word wouldst write written
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Page 116 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Page 179 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty ; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Page 185 - We have the power of retaining those images which we have once received; and of altering and compounding them into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Page 31 - Perfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been, 1. We have been, 2. Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been ; 3. They have been. Pluperfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I had been, 1. We had been, 2.
Page 157 - to write" was then present to me, and must still be considered as present, when I bring back that time, and the thoughts of it. It ought, therefore, to be, " The last week I intended to write.
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 102 - RULE II. Two or more nouns, fyc. in the singular number, joined together by a copulative conjunction, expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number: as " Socrates and Plato were wise; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece;" " The sun that rolls over our heads, the food that we receive, the rest that we enjoy, daily admonish us of a superior and superintending Power.
Page 51 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Page 118 - A syllable is a sound either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word ; as, a, an, ant. Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables; or of expressing a word by its proper letters.* WORDS.
Page 163 - Much was believed, but little understood, And to be dull was construed to be good; 690 A second deluge learning thus o'er-run, And the monks finished what the Goths begun.