The institutes of English grammar1856 |
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... singular number , and the nominative case . " It should have been- " Virtue is a common noun , personified proper , of the second per- son , singular number , feminine gender , and nominative case . " And , then the defini- tions of all ...
... singular number , and the nominative case . " It should have been- " Virtue is a common noun , personified proper , of the second per- son , singular number , feminine gender , and nominative case . " And , then the defini- tions of all ...
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... singular number , neuter gen- der , and nominative case : and is the subject of degrades ; according to the rule which says , ' A noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a verb , must be in the nominative case . ' Because the meaning ...
... singular number , neuter gen- der , and nominative case : and is the subject of degrades ; according to the rule which says , ' A noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a verb , must be in the nominative case . ' Because the meaning ...
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... singular number ; and should form the plural regularly , as an ordinary appellative . Thus : ( if we adopt , as we ought , the names now most generally used in English schools :) A , Aes ; Bee , Bees ; Cee , Cees ; Dee , Dees ; E , Ees ...
... singular number ; and should form the plural regularly , as an ordinary appellative . Thus : ( if we adopt , as we ought , the names now most generally used in English schools :) A , Aes ; Bee , Bees ; Cee , Cees ; Dee , Dees ; E , Ees ...
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... number . There are two numbers ; the singular and the plural . The singular number is that which denotes but one ; as , The boy learns . The plural number is that which denotes more than one ; as , The boys learn . The plural number of ...
... number . There are two numbers ; the singular and the plural . The singular number is that which denotes but one ; as , The boy learns . The plural number is that which denotes more than one ; as , The boys learn . The plural number of ...
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... singular ; as , embers , ides , oats , scissors , tongs , vespers , literati . OBS . 11. - Some nouns are alike in both numbers ; as , sheep , deer , vermin , swine , hose , means , odds , news , species , series , apparatus . The ...
... singular ; as , embers , ides , oats , scissors , tongs , vespers , literati . OBS . 11. - Some nouns are alike in both numbers ; as , sheep , deer , vermin , swine , hose , means , odds , news , species , series , apparatus . The ...
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according to Rule adjective adjuncts adverb agree anapestic antecedent apposition auxiliary classes clause comma common noun compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant construction denotes derived diphthong ellipsis employed English Grammar examples EXERCISE express FALSE SYNTAX finite verb FORMULE.-Not proper governed Grammar of English grammarians hast honour imperative mood Imperfect Tense improper diphthong improve indicative mood infinitive mood interjection language learned learner LESSON letters loved meaning Murray neuter gender never nominative Note noun or pronoun object OBSERVATIONS ON RULE parsing passive perfect participle phrase Pleonasm Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive potential mood Praxis preceded prefixed preposition Present Tense preterit principal reading relation require Saxon says second person singular semivowels sense sentence signifies simple singular number sometimes sound speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood syllable SYNTAX UNDER RULE teacher term thee third person thou art tion triphthong virtue vowel wise words write
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Página 272 - 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!
Página 250 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Página 224 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 144 - 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.
Página 269 - I an itching palm? You know that you are Brutus that speak this, Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.
Página 273 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or, peradventure, he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Página 268 - 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.
Página 158 - 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.
Página 239 - Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
Página 64 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.