The Principles of Language Exemplified in a Practical English Grammar: With Copious Exercises Designed as an Introduction to the Study of Language Generally, for the Use of Schools, and Self-instructionWhittaker and Company, 1843 - 264 pages |
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... PLURAL number . If an assertion be made of one object only , the sub- ject stands in the singular number . Ex .: A dog barks . The street is dirty . If we speak of several objects of the same kind , the subject stands in the plural ...
... PLURAL number . If an assertion be made of one object only , the sub- ject stands in the singular number . Ex .: A dog barks . The street is dirty . If we speak of several objects of the same kind , the subject stands in the plural ...
Page 12
... plural quite irregularly . Ex .: Ox , oxen ; child , children ; penny , pence ; brother , brethren ( in a religious ... plural , though in certain locutions they are met with in that form ; as , the sands of the desert ; the waters of ...
... plural quite irregularly . Ex .: Ox , oxen ; child , children ; penny , pence ; brother , brethren ( in a religious ... plural , though in certain locutions they are met with in that form ; as , the sands of the desert ; the waters of ...
Page 16
... plural to " YOU . " Custom , however , requires that the plural " you " be em- ployed even in speaking to individuals , the singular number of the second person being seldom used except in poetry or prayer . When , in speaking , it is ...
... plural to " YOU . " Custom , however , requires that the plural " you " be em- ployed even in speaking to individuals , the singular number of the second person being seldom used except in poetry or prayer . When , in speaking , it is ...
Page 18
... person , all our other verbs having but three . Singular . I am thou art First person Second person Third person he ( she , it , ) is Plural . we are you are they are Here we see , in the singular , the verb 18 OF THE PREDICATE .
... person , all our other verbs having but three . Singular . I am thou art First person Second person Third person he ( she , it , ) is Plural . we are you are they are Here we see , in the singular , the verb 18 OF THE PREDICATE .
Page 19
... plural , the change merely shows the number of the subject , the same form serving for all the three persons . Let us take another verb . Singular . Plural . First person I write we write Second person thou writest you write Third ...
... plural , the change merely shows the number of the subject , the same form serving for all the three persons . Let us take another verb . Singular . Plural . First person I write we write Second person thou writest you write Third ...
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accessory attributive sentence accessory sentence action adjective verb ADVERBIAL SENTENCES adverbs of degree antecedent assertion auxiliary verbs called child class of words clause combined complex sentences commonly compound conjugated conjunctions connected convey defined definitive determined distinct ellipsis employed English equivalent examples EXERCISE feminine following sentences forming the complement frequently Future Perfect Future Perfect Tense Future Tense genitive governed grammar grammarians hyphen idea IMPERATIVE MOOD indicative mood infinitive mood inflection instances interrogative language Latin latter LESSON masculine master negative nominative sentence noun object participial substantive passive voice peculiar Perfect Tense Indefinite person singular personal pronouns phrase Pluperfect Tense plural number POTENTIAL MOOD preceding preposition Present Tense principal sentence pupil regarded relation relative pronoun second person SECTION sense serving simple sentences singular number sometimes speak speaker spoken stantive subjunctive mood syllable tence third person tion tive transitive verb twelve complex sentences twenty sentences verbal substantive whence write
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Page 258 - Thus the first years are usually employed and diverted in looking abroad. Men's business in them is to acquaint themselves with what is to be found without; and so, growing up in a constant attention to outward sensations, seldom make any considerable reflection on what passes within them till they come to be of riper years; and some scarce ever at all.
Page 238 - ... read read read rend rent rent rid rid rid ride rode ridden ring rang rung rise rose risen run ran run...
Page 222 - Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof : an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God ? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Page 238 - Know, knew, known, Lade, laded, laden. Lay, laid, laid. Lead, led, led. Leave, left, left. Lend, lent, lent. Let, let, let Lie, to lie down, lay, lain. Load, loaded, laden, x. Lose, lost, lost. Make, made, made. Meet, met, met. Mow, mowed, mown, R.
Page 104 - Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. 5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Page 236 - Bear, to carry, bore, Beat, beat, Begin, began, Bend, bent, Bereave, bereft, R. Beseech, besought, Bid, bid, bade, Bind, bound, Bite, bit, Bleed, bled, Blow, blew, Break, broke, Breed, . bred, Bring, brought, Build, built, Burst, burst, Buy, bought, Cast, cast, Catch, caught, R.
Page 132 - And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Page 237 - ... Froze Got Gilt, R. Girt, R. Gave Went Graved Ground Grew Had Hung, R. Heard Hewed Hid Hit Held Hurt Kept Knit, R.
Page 237 - ... fall fell feed fed feel felt fight fought find found flee fled fling flung fly flew forbear forbore...
Page 104 - ... prudence : the youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance. The young man who intends no ill, believes that none is intended, and therefore acts with openness and...