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... adopted because the y is now used instead of ie , which was the ancient method of spelling such words . In old authors we find flie , not fly ; beautie , not beauty . When the y is preceded by a vowel , it remains unchanged , and s only ...
... adopted because the y is now used instead of ie , which was the ancient method of spelling such words . In old authors we find flie , not fly ; beautie , not beauty . When the y is preceded by a vowel , it remains unchanged , and s only ...
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... adopted . A few of the principal are here subjoined . Sing . Plural Sing . Plural Antithesis Antitheses Genius Genii * Arcanum Arcana Automatum Automata MemorandumMemorandums Memoranda Axis Axes Metamorphosis Metamorphoses Basis Bases ...
... adopted . A few of the principal are here subjoined . Sing . Plural Sing . Plural Antithesis Antitheses Genius Genii * Arcanum Arcana Automatum Automata MemorandumMemorandums Memoranda Axis Axes Metamorphosis Metamorphoses Basis Bases ...
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... adopted for elegance sake . Have you seen St. Pauls Cathedral ? Potatos are not indiginous to England . There were many erratums in the book . The Arabian nights tales . The attorneys clerk is at my fathers . Attornies abound in England ...
... adopted for elegance sake . Have you seen St. Pauls Cathedral ? Potatos are not indiginous to England . There were many erratums in the book . The Arabian nights tales . The attorneys clerk is at my fathers . Attornies abound in England ...
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... adoption of such a course . It is very true that we are compelled to employ an auxiliary with the passive participle of the verb throughout its conjugation . And is not the Latin verb obliged to adopt a similar method in the formation ...
... adoption of such a course . It is very true that we are compelled to employ an auxiliary with the passive participle of the verb throughout its conjugation . And is not the Latin verb obliged to adopt a similar method in the formation ...
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... adopt many fanciful derivations for some of our Saxon words - particularly the Prepositions and Conjunctions . One or two examples , selected from Horne Tooke's " Diver- sions of Purley , " will suffice to illustrate the foregoing asser ...
... adopt many fanciful derivations for some of our Saxon words - particularly the Prepositions and Conjunctions . One or two examples , selected from Horne Tooke's " Diver- sions of Purley , " will suffice to illustrate the foregoing asser ...
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A New and Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language George King (of Upper Holloway ) No preview available - 2019 |
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accosted Past accosted Perfect active participle adjectives adverb advised &c affixing agreeing apostrophe application beauty belonging brother Cæsar called comma conjugation consonant conveyed demonstrative adnoun denotes derived elegance ellipsis English language EXERCISES expressed feminine finite verb following sentence frequently governed Grammar grammarians imperative mood implies improper indefinite adnoun indicative mood infinitive mood inflection instances intransitive irregular letter Lord masculine gender meaning Monosyllables neuter gender nominative noun common noun or pronoun Nouns ending objective parsing passive participle passive voice past tense PERSPICUITY Pleonasm plural number Plural Sing Poss POTENTIAL MOOD prefix preposition present tense Purity qualifying adnoun Queen regular require Rule II Rule VII sake Saxon second person signifies single vowel singular number smile Solecism sometimes speaking style subjoined Superlative syllable SYNTAX terminate third person thou art transitive verb tree understood Rule unto verb transitive Vide virtue vowel washed words and phrases write
Popular passages
Page 73 - Pity the sorrows of a poor old man ! Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span; Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.
Page 65 - When the chief priests, therefore, and officers, saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him : for I find no fault in him.
Page 68 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 73 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 1 - H; I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z a, b, c, d, o, f, g, h, i...
Page 47 - Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt...
Page 64 - The Comma represents the shortest pause ; the Semicolon, a pause double that of the comma ; the Colon, double that of the semicolon ; and the Period, double that of the colon.
Page 62 - this is right, or that wrong " : they may believe " this a crime, or that a sin ; this punishable by man, or that by God " : yet if the savour of things lies cross to honesty ; if the fancy be florid and the appetite high towards the subaltern beauties and lower order of worldly symmetries and proportions, the conduct will infallibly turn this latter way.
Page 64 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 17 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.