An Abridgment of L. Murray's English Grammar: With Alterations and Improvements : Designed for the Use of the Younger Class of LearnersManning & Loring, 1808 - 72 Seiten |
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... agreement and right dispo- fition of words in a sentence . A fentence is an affemblage of words , ex- preffed in proper form , and ranged in proper or- der , and concurring to make a complete sense . Sentences are of two kinds , SIMPLE ...
... agreement and right dispo- fition of words in a sentence . A fentence is an affemblage of words , ex- preffed in proper form , and ranged in proper or- der , and concurring to make a complete sense . Sentences are of two kinds , SIMPLE ...
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... agreement which one word has with another , in gender , number , cafe , or perfon . Government is that power which one part of fpeech has over another , in directing its mood , tenfe , or cafe . RULE I. A verb must agree with its ...
... agreement which one word has with another , in gender , number , cafe , or perfon . Government is that power which one part of fpeech has over another , in directing its mood , tenfe , or cafe . RULE I. A verb must agree with its ...
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... agree with either of them ; but fome regard must be had to that which is more naturally the fubject of it , as also ... agreeing with them in the plural number ; as , " Socrates and Plato L were wife men ; they were the most eminent D 2 ...
... agree with either of them ; but fome regard must be had to that which is more naturally the fubject of it , as also ... agreeing with them in the plural number ; as , " Socrates and Plato L were wife men ; they were the most eminent D 2 ...
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... agree with that perfon placed nearest to it ; as , " I or thou art to blame ; " " Thou or I am in fault . " 2d . When a disjunctive occurs between a fingular noun , or pronoun , and a plural one , the verb is made to agree with the ...
... agree with that perfon placed nearest to it ; as , " I or thou art to blame ; " " Thou or I am in fault . " 2d . When a disjunctive occurs between a fingular noun , or pronoun , and a plural one , the verb is made to agree with the ...
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... agree with their antecedents and the nouns , for which they stand , in num- ber , gender , and perfon ; as , " The moon ape pears , and the fhines ; but the light is not her own . " Remarks . 2d . The pronoun that , being frequently ...
... agree with their antecedents and the nouns , for which they stand , in num- ber , gender , and perfon ; as , " The moon ape pears , and the fhines ; but the light is not her own . " Remarks . 2d . The pronoun that , being frequently ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adjective adjuncts adverb alſo becauſe caufe colon comma compariſon COMPOUND PERFECT confifts confonant conjunction connected DEFECTIVE VERBS defire diphthong diſtinguiſhed Engliſh expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feen femicolon fenfe feparated fhalt fhort fhould have loved fhould love fhouldft fign fignifies fimple fentence fingle finite verb fome fometimes fpeech ftudy fubftantive fubject fuch fuperlative fyllable gender houfe Imperative Mode IMPERFECT SINGULAR Indicative Mode Infinitive Mode inftances itfelf lefs LESSON Metonymy moft moſt muft muſt nominative cafe nouns nouns and pronouns objective cafe paffion Perf perfect participle PERFECT TENSE Perfonal pronouns phraſe PLUPERFECT SINGULAR PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number pofitive Potential Mode preffed prepofition PRESENT TENSE refpect REGULAR VERB relative pronoun repreſents requifite RULE SECOND FUTURE TENSE ſhall shalt or wilt Subjunctive Synecdoche tenfe tenſe thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe Thou art Thou mayft Thou mightft Thou shalt ufed uſed verb virtue vowel wife words and phrafes wouldft
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Seite 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 57 - Were all books reduced thus to their quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.
Seite 43 - When a nominative comes between the relative and the verb, the relative is 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.
Seite 31 - They might have been loved. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. Present Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. If I be loved, 1. If we be loved, 2. If thou be loved, 2. If you be loved, 3. If he be loved; 3. If they be loved.
Seite 12 - What, is a kind of compound relative, including both the antecedent and the relative, and is equivalent to that which; as "This is what I wanted ;" that is to say,
Seite 46 - By the thirteenth rule of syntax, when verbs are used that, in point of time, relate to each other, the order of time should be observed. The imperfect tense visited should, therefore, have been had visited, in the pluperfect tense, representing the.