The Class and Home-lesson Book of English GrammarLondon, 1871 - 72 pages |
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... compared , that is , their comparatives and superlatives are not formed according to any rule ; as , Pos . Comp . Sup . Bad Worse Worst Far Farther Farthest Fore Former Foremost , or first Good Better Best In Inner Innermost , or inmost ...
... compared , that is , their comparatives and superlatives are not formed according to any rule ; as , Pos . Comp . Sup . Bad Worse Worst Far Farther Farthest Fore Former Foremost , or first Good Better Best In Inner Innermost , or inmost ...
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... compared ? Give examples of irregular comparisons . Write the superlative of large , new , ripe , good , out , low , near , and late . What are the cardinal numbers ? the ordinal ? VERBS . 111. - Without the aid of the Verb ( or the ...
... compared ? Give examples of irregular comparisons . Write the superlative of large , new , ripe , good , out , low , near , and late . What are the cardinal numbers ? the ordinal ? VERBS . 111. - Without the aid of the Verb ( or the ...
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... compared by prefixing more and most ; as , wisely , more wisely , most wisely ; beauti- fully , more beautifully , most beautifully . 164. - A few are compared irregularly , as well , better , best . 165. Some adverbs really consist of ...
... compared by prefixing more and most ; as , wisely , more wisely , most wisely ; beauti- fully , more beautifully , most beautifully . 164. - A few are compared irregularly , as well , better , best . 165. Some adverbs really consist of ...
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... compared ? Give four examples . IX . 1. How are primary and secondary derivatives formed ? Give examples . 2. Give examples of the usage of prefixes , and suffixes . 3. What is meant by a diminutive ? Give examples . 4. Point out the ...
... compared ? Give four examples . IX . 1. How are primary and secondary derivatives formed ? Give examples . 2. Give examples of the usage of prefixes , and suffixes . 3. What is meant by a diminutive ? Give examples . 4. Point out the ...
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... compared in the superlative — as , chiefest , ex- tremest , & c . 298. - The auxiliaries determine the time and mode of the verb's action ; they express the perceptions and vo- litions of the mind . They are be , do , have , let , may ...
... compared in the superlative — as , chiefest , ex- tremest , & c . 298. - The auxiliaries determine the time and mode of the verb's action ; they express the perceptions and vo- litions of the mind . They are be , do , have , let , may ...
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2nd If thou 2nd Thou shalt A. H. MONTEITH adjectives adverb AHN'S FIRST FRENCH apposition auxiliary verbs called co-ordinative conjunctions command Common noun comparative and superlative compound sentence Definite article degrees of comparison English English language EXERCISE feminine gender following sentences FRENCH COURSE FUTURE TENSE German Give examples governed grammar gular number Hecuba hit the table horse IMPERATIVE MOOD INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD INTERJECTION intransitive John hit kinds language letters London meaning neuter gender nominative noun or pronoun objective Parse past tense perfect participle perfect tenses person or thing Plur plural number possessive predicate prefixes preposition PRESENT TENSE Price 6d qualifying QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION relative pronoun signifying simple sentences Sing singular number sometimes speech spoken Strongly bound SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD syllables SYNTAX T. J. ALLMAN tell thee third person tive transitive verb twenty Nouns vowels words Write out twenty دو وو
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Page 29 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 68 - To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity ; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge, carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.
Page 68 - I cannot but extract the following: —"The style of Bunyan Is delightful to every reader, and Invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary- Is the vocabulary of the common people. There Is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant We have observed several pages which do not contain s single word of more than two syllables.
Page 53 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 53 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I : In a cowslip's bell I lie ; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer P2*) merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 48 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Page 68 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Page 57 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 67 - To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, IB persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Page 68 - Never had any writer so vast a command of the whole eloquence, of scorn, misanthropy and despair. That Marah was never dry. No art could sweeten, no draughts could exhaust, its perennial waters of bitterness. Never was there such variety in monotony as that of Byron. From maniac laughter to piercing lamentation, there was not a single note of human anguish of which he was not master. Year after...