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... boy , tree , house , town . Some writers make ten , or even twelve parts of speech ; which , instead of elucidating the science of Grammar , tend rather to obscure it . If the language can , without the slightest difficulty , be reduced ...
... boy , tree , house , town . Some writers make ten , or even twelve parts of speech ; which , instead of elucidating the science of Grammar , tend rather to obscure it . If the language can , without the slightest difficulty , be reduced ...
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... Boy Girl Gaffer Brother Sister Gander Mother Nun Gammer Goose Buck Doe Hart Roe Bull Cow Horse Mare Bullock , or Steer } Hei Husband Wife Heifer King Queen Cock Hen Lad Lass Colt Filly Lord Lady Dog Bitch Man Woman Male . Female . Male ...
... Boy Girl Gaffer Brother Sister Gander Mother Nun Gammer Goose Buck Doe Hart Roe Bull Cow Horse Mare Bullock , or Steer } Hei Husband Wife Heifer King Queen Cock Hen Lad Lass Colt Filly Lord Lady Dog Bitch Man Woman Male . Female . Male ...
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... boy , boys . * Some nouns , ending in for fe , change the f or fe into ves , in forming the plural , as sheaf , sheaves ; knife , knives . Of this description there are fourteen ; while twenty - seven nouns of these terminations take s ...
... boy , boys . * Some nouns , ending in for fe , change the f or fe into ves , in forming the plural , as sheaf , sheaves ; knife , knives . Of this description there are fourteen ; while twenty - seven nouns of these terminations take s ...
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... boy's cap , the girl's books , the men's work . When the noun ends in s , the apostrophe is used without appending the s , as for righteousness ' sake , the boys ' school , the ladies ' seminary . The names of persons , and some words ...
... boy's cap , the girl's books , the men's work . When the noun ends in s , the apostrophe is used without appending the s , as for righteousness ' sake , the boys ' school , the ladies ' seminary . The names of persons , and some words ...
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... boys play , the cock crows . Verbs are subject to the inflection of mood , tense , number , and person , and these are called the accidents of the verb . There are four moods , viz.— 66 The Indicative , which indicates or affirms , as ...
... boys play , the cock crows . Verbs are subject to the inflection of mood , tense , number , and person , and these are called the accidents of the verb . There are four moods , viz.— 66 The Indicative , which indicates or affirms , as ...
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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.