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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... languages is the only founda- tion of a thorough education ; ' the knowledge of the grammar ought to precede all other knowledge ; and philologists are the only thor- oughly learned men . ' The Humanists maintained the entire sway of ...
... languages is the only founda- tion of a thorough education ; ' the knowledge of the grammar ought to precede all other knowledge ; and philologists are the only thor- oughly learned men . ' The Humanists maintained the entire sway of ...
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... Language , and in Natural History . The Math- ematics appear to have assumed a preponderance in practice , which was unfavorable to the regular and harmonious cultivation of other powers . The senses and the bodily powers he endeavored ...
... Language , and in Natural History . The Math- ematics appear to have assumed a preponderance in practice , which was unfavorable to the regular and harmonious cultivation of other powers . The senses and the bodily powers he endeavored ...
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... language : what , therefore , shall we call these grand divisions of words ? 139. PARTS OF SPEECH . Q. When , then , I ask you what part of speech boy is , for instance , what do you understand me to mean ? 140. The same as to ask me ...
... language : what , therefore , shall we call these grand divisions of words ? 139. PARTS OF SPEECH . Q. When , then , I ask you what part of speech boy is , for instance , what do you understand me to mean ? 140. The same as to ask me ...
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... language . ' " From virtue to vice the prog- ress is gradual . " " They travelled into France through Italy . " " He lives within his income . " Without the aid of charity , he lived very confortably by his industry . " " I will search ...
... language . ' " From virtue to vice the prog- ress is gradual . " " They travelled into France through Italy . " " He lives within his income . " Without the aid of charity , he lived very confortably by his industry . " " I will search ...
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... language correctly . 289. GRAMMAR is divided into four parts , namely , 290 . 1. ORTHOGRAPHY , 2. ETYMOLOGY , 3. SYNTAX , 4. PROSODY . XX . OF ORTHOGRAPHY . 291. ORTHOGRAPHY includes a knowledge of the nature and power of letters , and ...
... language correctly . 289. GRAMMAR is divided into four parts , namely , 290 . 1. ORTHOGRAPHY , 2. ETYMOLOGY , 3. SYNTAX , 4. PROSODY . XX . OF ORTHOGRAPHY . 291. ORTHOGRAPHY includes a knowledge of the nature and power of letters , and ...
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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.