The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Examples for Parsing, Questions for Examination, False Syntax for Correction, Exercises for Writing, Observations for the Advanced Student, and a Key to the Oral Exercises: to which are Added Four Appendixes. Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, and Private Learners |
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... SYNTAX FOR CORRECTION , EXERCISES FOR WRITING , OBSERVATIONS FOR THE ADVANCED STUDENT , AND A KEY TO THE ORAL EXERCISES : TO WHICH ARE ADDED FOUR APPENDIXES . DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS , ACADEMIES , AND PRIVATE LEARNERS . BY GOOLD ...
... SYNTAX FOR CORRECTION , EXERCISES FOR WRITING , OBSERVATIONS FOR THE ADVANCED STUDENT , AND A KEY TO THE ORAL EXERCISES : TO WHICH ARE ADDED FOUR APPENDIXES . DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS , ACADEMIES , AND PRIVATE LEARNERS . BY GOOLD ...
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... syntax for correction , exercises for writing , observations for the advanced student , and a key to the oral exercises : to which are added four appendixes . Designed for the use of schools , academies , and private learners . By Goold ...
... syntax for correction , exercises for writing , observations for the advanced student , and a key to the oral exercises : to which are added four appendixes . Designed for the use of schools , academies , and private learners . By Goold ...
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... syntax placed under the rules , are to be corrected oral- ly ; the four chapters of exercises adapted to the four parts of the subject , are to be written out by the learner . In selecting examples for these exercises , the author has ...
... syntax placed under the rules , are to be corrected oral- ly ; the four chapters of exercises adapted to the four parts of the subject , are to be written out by the learner . In selecting examples for these exercises , the author has ...
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... syntax orally , by regular and logical forms of argument ; nor does this appear to have been more ably directed towards the purposes of disci- pline . There is so much to be done , in order to effect what is desirable in the man ...
... syntax orally , by regular and logical forms of argument ; nor does this appear to have been more ably directed towards the purposes of disci- pline . There is so much to be done , in order to effect what is desirable in the man ...
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... syntax of this part of speech , is merely to omit the gender - this being the only difference between the two forms . But even this difference had no other origin than the compiler's carelessness in preparing his octavo book of ...
... syntax of this part of speech , is merely to omit the gender - this being the only difference between the two forms . But even this difference had no other origin than the compiler's carelessness in preparing his octavo book of ...
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according to Rule active-transitive verb adjective adverb agree antecedent apposition auxiliary clause comma common noun compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant construction definite article denotes derived ellipsis employed English examples EXERCISE express FALSE SYNTAX figure finite verb governed grammar grammarians happiness honour imperative mood Imperfect Tense improper diphthong indicative mood infinitive mood inserted interjection interrogative language learner learning LESSON letters loved meaning neuter gender never nominative noun or pronoun objective OBSERVATIONS ON RULE parsing passive perfect participle person or thing personal pronoun Pleonasm Pluperfect Pluperfect Tense plural number Poss potential mood preceded prefixed preposition Present Tense preterit proper reading relation relative pronoun require Saxon second person singular sense signifies singular number sometimes sound speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood syllable SYNTAX UNDER RULE thee thing merely spoken third person thou art tion triphthong virtue vowel wise words write
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Page 241 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 134 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
Page 120 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 245 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 200 - And he confessed, and denied not ; but confessed, " I am not the Christ." And they asked him, " What then ? Art thou Elias ? " And he saith, " I am not." " Art thou that prophet ? " And he answered,
Page 243 - But what think ye ? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to.day in my vineyard.
Page 166 - And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 222 - For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord ; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
Page 216 - Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
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