English Grammar on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently Adopted in Germany and Switzerland, Designed for Schools and AcademiesSpalding & Storrs, 1840 - 192 стор. |
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... syllable : how , then , are the com- parative and superlative degrees of words of this sort formed ? 110. By adding ... syllables compose the word beautiful ? 112. Three . Q. How , then , are words of three , or more syllables than one ...
... syllable : how , then , are the com- parative and superlative degrees of words of this sort formed ? 110. By adding ... syllables compose the word beautiful ? 112. Three . Q. How , then , are words of three , or more syllables than one ...
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... syllable , as soon above ; but there is a very considerable number , the comparison of which is not regulated by any general rule . The following list embraces adverbs va- riously compared : will you repeat the comparative and ...
... syllable , as soon above ; but there is a very considerable number , the comparison of which is not regulated by any general rule . The following list embraces adverbs va- riously compared : will you repeat the comparative and ...
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... syllable ; as , " an heroic action , " " an historical account . " 356. Before words beginning with a long , a is used instead of an ; as , union , " " a university , " " a useful thing . " 66 26 66 357. A is also used for an before the ...
... syllable ; as , " an heroic action , " " an historical account . " 356. Before words beginning with a long , a is used instead of an ; as , union , " " a university , " " a useful thing . " 66 26 66 357. A is also used for an before the ...
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... syllable , the comparison is usually made by placing the adverbs more and most before the positive ; as , benevolent , more benevolent , most benevolent . 371. The comparison is sometimes formed by the adverbs less and least ; as , wise ...
... syllable , the comparison is usually made by placing the adverbs more and most before the positive ; as , benevolent , more benevolent , most benevolent . 371. The comparison is sometimes formed by the adverbs less and least ; as , wise ...
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... syllables hardly ever admit of these terminations . 373. In some words , the superlative is formed by adding the adverb most to the end of them ; as , nethermost , uttermost , uppermost . 374. Some adjectives , having in themselves a ...
... syllables hardly ever admit of these terminations . 373. In some words , the superlative is formed by adding the adverb most to the end of them ; as , nethermost , uttermost , uppermost . 374. Some adjectives , having in themselves a ...
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according to RULE active verb adjective pronoun adverb agrees applied auxiliaries auxiliary verbs better called comma common noun compound conjugate conjunction connected Corresponding with Murray's defective verb definite article denote ellipsis EXERCISES IN PARSING EXERCISES IN SYNTAX following sentences future tense genitive Give an example governed happy imperative mood imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood interjection intransitive James John king loved manner means Murray's Grammar neuter verb nominative Note number and person objective PARSED AND CORRECTED passive verb Perf perfect participle personal pronoun phrase PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive potential mood preposition Pres present tense relative pronoun repeat RULE VI RULE VII Rule XV second future second person sense signifies sing singular number sometimes speak subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllable SYNTAX CONTINUED tence thing Thou art tion tive transitive verbs virtue vowel William wise word wouldst write written
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Сторінка 116 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Сторінка 179 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty ; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Сторінка 185 - We have the power of retaining those images which we have once received; and of altering and compounding them into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Сторінка 31 - 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. We had been, 2.
Сторінка 157 - to write" was then present to me, and must still be considered as present, when I bring back that time, and the thoughts of it. It ought, therefore, to be, " The last week I intended to write.
Сторінка 185 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Сторінка 102 - RULE II. Two or more nouns, fyc. in the singular number, joined together by a copulative conjunction, expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number: as " Socrates and Plato were wise; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece;" " The sun that rolls over our heads, the food that we receive, the rest that we enjoy, daily admonish us of a superior and superintending Power.
Сторінка 51 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Сторінка 118 - A syllable is a sound either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word ; as, a, an, ant. Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables; or of expressing a word by its proper letters.* WORDS.
Сторінка 163 - Much was believed, but little understood, And to be dull was construed to be good; 690 A second deluge learning thus o'er-run, And the monks finished what the Goths begun.