The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Examples for Parsing, Questions for Examination, False Syntax for Correction, Exercises for Writing, Observations for the Advanced Student, and a Key to the Oral Exercises: to which are Added Four Appendixes. Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, and Private LearnersAlling, Seymour & Company, 1848 - Počet stran: 311 |
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Strana 16
... employed ; sometimes , the Italic ; and occasionally , the Old English . The letters have severally two forms , by which they are distinguished as capitals and small letters . Small letters constitute the body of every work ; and ...
... employed ; sometimes , the Italic ; and occasionally , the Old English . The letters have severally two forms , by which they are distinguished as capitals and small letters . Small letters constitute the body of every work ; and ...
Strana 21
... employed in English ? What distinction of form do we make in each of the letters ? What is said o . small letters ? and why are capitals used ? How many rules for capitals are there ? and what are their heads ? What says Rule 1st of ...
... employed in English ? What distinction of form do we make in each of the letters ? What is said o . small letters ? and why are capitals used ? How many rules for capitals are there ? and what are their heads ? What says Rule 1st of ...
Strana 22
... employed . The following examples of false orthography are inserted , that they may be corrected by the pupil in writing . They are selected with direct reference to the rules ; which are at first indicated by figures . For it is ...
... employed . The following examples of false orthography are inserted , that they may be corrected by the pupil in writing . They are selected with direct reference to the rules ; which are at first indicated by figures . For it is ...
Strana 32
... employed as a noun : as , " The triumphing of the wicked is short . " - Job , xx . 5 . OBS . 1. - The proper name of a person or place with an article prefixed , is generally used as a common noun ; as , " He is the Cicero of his age ...
... employed as a noun : as , " The triumphing of the wicked is short . " - Job , xx . 5 . OBS . 1. - The proper name of a person or place with an article prefixed , is generally used as a common noun ; as , " He is the Cicero of his age ...
Strana 35
... gender is considered the most worthy , and is generally employed when both sexes are included under one common term . OBS . 4. - The sexes are distinguished in three ETYMOLOGY . - NOUNS . 35 Genders & Preposition 184.
... gender is considered the most worthy , and is generally employed when both sexes are included under one common term . OBS . 4. - The sexes are distinguished in three ETYMOLOGY . - NOUNS . 35 Genders & Preposition 184.
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according to Rule active-transitive verb adjective adverb agree antecedent apposition auxiliary clause comma common noun compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant construction definite article denotes derived ellipsis employed English examples EXERCISE express FALSE SYNTAX figure finite verb governed grammar grammarians happiness honour imperative mood Imperfect Tense improper diphthong indicative mood infinitive mood inserted interjection interrogative language learner learning LESSON letters loved meaning neuter gender never nominative noun or pronoun objective OBSERVATIONS ON RULE parsing passive perfect participle person or thing personal pronoun Pleonasm Pluperfect Pluperfect Tense plural number Poss potential mood preceded prefixed preposition Present Tense preterit proper reading relation relative pronoun require Saxon second person singular sense signifies singular number sometimes sound speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood syllable SYNTAX UNDER RULE thee thing merely spoken third person thou art tion triphthong virtue vowel wise words write
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Strana 241 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Strana 134 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
Strana 120 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Strana 245 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Strana 200 - And he confessed, and denied not ; but confessed, " I am not the Christ." And they asked him, " What then ? Art thou Elias ? " And he saith, " I am not." " Art thou that prophet ? " And he answered,
Strana 243 - But what think ye ? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to.day in my vineyard.
Strana 166 - And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city.
Strana 222 - For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord ; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
Strana 216 - Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
Strana 116 - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.