A Shorter English Grammar with Copious and Carefully Graduated ExercisesW.J. Gage, 1879 - 253 páginas |
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... quality , action , or state , as hardness , running , growth , sleep . As ... adjectives ( as hardness from hard ) , from verbs ( as growth from grow ) ... quality being drawn off ' ( Latin abstractus ) in thought from that to which it ...
... quality , action , or state , as hardness , running , growth , sleep . As ... adjectives ( as hardness from hard ) , from verbs ( as growth from grow ) ... quality being drawn off ' ( Latin abstractus ) in thought from that to which it ...
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... number and the geni- tive case . 1. The common plural inflexion was -es ( Chaucer ) or -is ( Wiclif ) , shortened ... Adjectives . 81. In the phrase ' a white horse , ' the word white is an adjective . It denotes a certain quality of ...
... number and the geni- tive case . 1. The common plural inflexion was -es ( Chaucer ) or -is ( Wiclif ) , shortened ... Adjectives . 81. In the phrase ' a white horse , ' the word white is an adjective . It denotes a certain quality of ...
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... adjectives can be used in both ways . 6 As things are distinguished by quality , quantity , and relation , an adjective joined to a noun usually distinguishes what the noun stands for from other things that may be named by the same noun ...
... adjectives can be used in both ways . 6 As things are distinguished by quality , quantity , and relation , an adjective joined to a noun usually distinguishes what the noun stands for from other things that may be named by the same noun ...
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Charles Peter Mason. CLASSIFICATION OF ADJECTIVES . 89. Adjectives may be arranged in the following classes : - 1. Qualitative Adjectives , or Adjectives of Quality . 2. Quantitative Adjectives , or Adjectives of Quantity . 3. Demonstrative ...
Charles Peter Mason. CLASSIFICATION OF ADJECTIVES . 89. Adjectives may be arranged in the following classes : - 1. Qualitative Adjectives , or Adjectives of Quality . 2. Quantitative Adjectives , or Adjectives of Quantity . 3. Demonstrative ...
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Charles Peter Mason. INFLEXION OF ADJECTIVES . 102. Adjectives , in modern English , are not declinable words , with ... adjective is the adjective in its simple form , used to point out some quality or attribute of that which we speak ...
Charles Peter Mason. INFLEXION OF ADJECTIVES . 102. Adjectives , in modern English , are not declinable words , with ... adjective is the adjective in its simple form , used to point out some quality or attribute of that which we speak ...
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Abstract Nouns action adjective clause Adjectives of Quality Adjectives of Relation adjunct of predicate Adverbial adjunct adverbial clause Analysis Anglo-Saxon attributive adjunct auxiliary verbs brother called Chaucer co-ordinate comma common Compare compound conjunction consonant dative denotes dependent clause derived Edition Exercise expressed father Fcap feminine following sentences gender genitive gerund grammatical Greek horse Imperative Mood Imperfect incomplete predication Indicative Mood infinitive mood inflexion juncts of subject Latin letter masculine means modifies mute neuter nominative noun or pronoun object Parse passive Past Indefinite Tense Past Perfect perfect participle Perfect Tense Personal Pronoun phrase Plur Plural possessive preceded prefix preposition Pres Present Indefinite Tense Present Tense Pret qualifies relative pronoun sense Shakspere simple Sing Singular smiting smitten speaking stands Subjective complement Subjunctive Mood substantive clause suffix superlative syllable Teutonic thee thing Third Person Thou transitive verb Verb of incomplete vowel sound weak conjugation word writing
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Página 230 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Página 222 - I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Página 204 - ... the house that Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
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Página 223 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, : Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 225 - THIS modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, * Here lies an honest man :' A poet, bless'd beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's...
Página 226 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness ; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: 6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. 7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
Página 8 - M, m : N, n : O, o : P, p : Q, q: R, r: S, s : T, t: U, u : V, v: W, w: X, x : Y, y : Z, z.
Página 4 - Verbs, Irregular and Defective; their leading formations, tenses, and inflexions, with Paradigms for conjugation, Rules for formation of tenses, &c.
Página 204 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.