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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... PRONOUN , the ADJECTIVE , the VERB , the ADVERB , the PREP- OSITION , the CONJUNCTION , and the INTER- JECTION . 1. An Article is a word prefixed to fub- ftantives to point them out , and to fhow how far their fignification extends ; as ...
... PRONOUN , the ADJECTIVE , the VERB , the ADVERB , the PREP- OSITION , the CONJUNCTION , and the INTER- JECTION . 1. An Article is a word prefixed to fub- ftantives to point them out , and to fhow how far their fignification extends ; as ...
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... Pronoun is a word ufed instead of a noun , to avoid the too frequent repetition of the fame word ; as , The man is ... pronouns , or the word to before it ; as , I walk , he plays , they write ; or , to walk , to play , to write . 6. An ...
... Pronoun is a word ufed instead of a noun , to avoid the too frequent repetition of the fame word ; as , The man is ... pronouns , or the word to before it ; as , I walk , he plays , they write ; or , to walk , to play , to write . 6. An ...
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... pronoun in the objective cafe ; as , with him , for ber , to the man . 8. A conjunction is a part of fpeech used to connect or join together sentences ; fo as , out of two , to make one fentence . It fome- times connects only words ; as ...
... pronoun in the objective cafe ; as , with him , for ber , to the man . 8. A conjunction is a part of fpeech used to connect or join together sentences ; fo as , out of two , to make one fentence . It fome- times connects only words ; as ...
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... pronoun to the fubftantive ; as , a male child , a female child ; a he - goat , a fhe - goat . 4. By prefixing another fubftantive to the word ; as , a man - fervant , a maid - fervant . ] NUMBER . Number is the confideration of an ...
... pronoun to the fubftantive ; as , a male child , a female child ; a he - goat , a fhe - goat . 4. By prefixing another fubftantive to the word ; as , a man - fervant , a maid - fervant . ] NUMBER . Number is the confideration of an ...
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... pronouns in fentences . There are three cafes : viz . Nominative , Pof- feffive , and Objective . The nominative case expresses the relation of an agent or actor , or the fubject of a verb ; as , " The boy plays ; " " the girls learn ...
... pronouns in fentences . There are three cafes : viz . Nominative , Pof- feffive , and Objective . The nominative case expresses the relation of an agent or actor , or the fubject of a verb ; as , " The boy plays ; " " the girls learn ...
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.