Aunt Jane's grammarC. Adeney, 1850 - 84 páginas |
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... action ; as , I teach Mary . What do you mean by the word agent ? An agent is a person who acts . Which is the agent in the sentence , I teach Mary ? I The pronoun I is the agent , because it D 3 ETYMOLOGY . 29 person or object. They ...
... action ; as , I teach Mary . What do you mean by the word agent ? An agent is a person who acts . Which is the agent in the sentence , I teach Mary ? I The pronoun I is the agent , because it D 3 ETYMOLOGY . 29 person or object. They ...
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... action passes over to the object ; as , I strike the table . Transitive means having the power of passing . What is a verb passive ? A passive verb is the action passing from one object to another ; as , Ellen is taught by me ; The ...
... action passes over to the object ; as , I strike the table . Transitive means having the power of passing . What is a verb passive ? A passive verb is the action passing from one object to another ; as , Ellen is taught by me ; The ...
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... action ; shall and will , what remains to be done , or the future ; may , possibility ; can , power ; let , permission ; and must , necessity . Are the verbs to have , to be , and to do , always auxiliaries ? No ; to have , to be , and ...
... action ; shall and will , what remains to be done , or the future ; may , possibility ; can , power ; let , permission ; and must , necessity . Are the verbs to have , to be , and to do , always auxiliaries ? No ; to have , to be , and ...
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... action , or an action begun and not ended ; as , I am reading a letter ; He was writing a book . How may the present participle be known ? The present or active participle always ends in ing What is the perfect participle ? The perfect ...
... action , or an action begun and not ended ; as , I am reading a letter ; He was writing a book . How may the present participle be known ? The present or active participle always ends in ing What is the perfect participle ? The perfect ...
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... action as past ; as , I wrote ; I was reading ; I did apply . Did , was , and had , are its signs . What is the past perfect ? The past perfect represents an action as past and finished before some other event happened ; as , I had ...
... action as past ; as , I wrote ; I was reading ; I did apply . Did , was , and had , are its signs . What is the past perfect ? The past perfect represents an action as past and finished before some other event happened ; as , I had ...
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accent action adjective pronouns adverb answer apostrophe is placed auxiliary verbs Cæsar child Compound Perfect conjugated conjunctions consonants copulative defective verbs definite article denotes derived diphthong disjunctive etymology example express feminine figure formed by adding Future Perfect Future Tense grammar Greek word hadst Imperative Mood Imperfect Tense indefinite Indicative Mood infinitive mood interrogation irregular verb kinds Latin word lative letter loved mayst or canst means Note noun or substantive object acted orthography Participle Past past participle Past Perfect past tense person or thing Pluperfect Tense plural number Potential Mood preposition Present Perfect Present Tense relative pronoun Rome Rule shalt or wilt shows the manner shows the relation silent h singular number sometimes sound speaking speech stantives Subjunctive Mood substantive or noun superlative third person singular Thou hast Thou mayst Thou mightst Thou shalt tive verb active verb neuter vowel word or syllable words ending
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Página 80 - 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 78 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Página 77 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Página 38 - 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 80 - VERSIFICATION. Versification is the arrangement of a certain number and variety of syllables, according to certain laws. Rhyme is the correspondence of the last sound of one verse, to the last sound or syllable of another.
Página 81 - PUNCTUATION. PUNCTUATION is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses, which the sense and an accurate pronunciation require.
Página 79 - I seem to myself to behold this city, the ornament of the earth, and the capital of ail nations, suddenly involved in one conflagration. I see before me the slaughtered heaps of citizens, lying unburied in the midst of their ruined country. The furious countenance of Cethegus rises to my view, while, with a savage joy, he is triumphing in your miseries.
Página 39 - They might have been. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. Present Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. If I be, 1. If we be, 2. If thou be, 2.
Página 44 - Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been loved, 1. We have been loved, 2. Thou hast been loved, 2. You have been loved, 3.
Página 38 - Tense. Singular. Plural: 1. I shall or will have been. 1. We shall or will have been. 2. Thou shalt or wilt have 2.