The First Lines of English Grammar: Being a Brief Abstract of the Author's Larger Work. Designed for Young LearnersS.S. & W. Wood, 1854 - 103 páginas |
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accent according to Rule active verb active-transitive verb adjective adverb antecedent apposition CHAPTER for parsing classes and modifications collective noun common noun compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant defective verb degree diphthong ellipsis EXAMPLES FOR PARSING expresses figure of rhetoric figures of Syntax formed by adding grammar IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect Tense indicative mood INFINITIVE MOOD interjections interrogative pronoun LESSON letters masculine neuter gender neuter verb nominative noun or pronoun perfect participle person and number person or thing personal pronoun pleonasm Pluperfect Tense Plur plural number Poss POTENTIAL MOOD preceded prefixes the auxiliary preposition Present Tense Preterit principal put absolute reading relation relative pronoun second person Second-future Tense seen sentence simple singular number sometimes sound speaker speech SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD tense prefixes thee thing merely spoken third person Thou hast thou love Thou mayst Thou mightst Thou wilt tion triphthong understood uttered vowel word added word that signifies
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Página 58 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Página 85 - With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Página 64 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Página 97 - And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
Página 38 - Singular. Plural. 1. I have loved, 1. We have loved, 2. Thou hast loved, 2. You have loved, 3. He has loved ; 3. They have loved. Pluperfect Tense.
Página 45 - Perfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been, 1. We have been, 2. Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been ; 3. They have been. Pluperfect Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I had been, 1.
Página 98 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Página 91 - 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.
Página 46 - You might have been. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. Present Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. If I be. 1. If we be. 2. If thou be. 2.
Página 40 - Singular. Plural. 1. I might have loved, 1. We might have loved, 2. Thou mightst have loved, 2. You might have loved, 3. He might have loved; 3. They might have loved. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.