A Practical Grammar of the English Language: In which the Principles Established by Lindley Murray, are Inculcated, and His Theory of the Moods Clearly Illustrated by Diagrams, Representing the Number of the Tenses in Each Mood--their Signs--and the Manner in which They are FormedShirley and Hyde, 1830 - 111 עמודים |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
adjective pronouns adverbs Amphibrach antecedent apply Rule auxiliary called canst comma compound connecting the former consonant Copulative corrected under Note corrected under RULE defective verbs definite article denotes derived Diagram distinguish ELLIPSIS Examples express an action FALSE SYNTAX formed by prefixing gender give hadst happy Imperative Mood imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood interrogative intransitive language LESSON letter line of reference loved means moods and tenses neuter verb nominative noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns omitted PARSED passions passive verb perfect participle personal pronouns phrase pluperfect tense plural number Poss possessive potential mood preceding exercises prefixing the sign preposition Pres present tense proper pupil in addition QUESTIONS reference connecting relative pronoun second future tense sense shouldst signifies singular number sometimes speak subjunctive mood superlative syllable Tense represents third person transitive verb variations virtue vowel wouldst write wrote
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 100 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
עמוד 107 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
עמוד 21 - A Conjunction is a part of speech that is chiefly used to connect sentences; so as, out of two or more sentences, to make but one; it sometimes connects only words; as, " Thou and he are happy, because you are good."
עמוד 86 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
עמוד 76 - A Pronoun is a word used instead of a noun, to avoid the too frequent repetition of the same word ; as, the man is happy, he is benevolent, he is useful.
עמוד 105 - Several alterations and additions have been made to the work. The first proposal was essentially different, and inferior to the second. • ... He is more bold and active, but not so wise and studious as his companion.
עמוד 86 - An explicative sentence is when a thing is said to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer, in a direct manner ; as, ' I am ; thou writest ; Thomas is Joved.
עמוד 86 - The subject is the thing chiefly spoken of ; the attribute is the thing or action affirmed or denied of it ; and the object is the thing affected by such action. The nominative denotes the subject, and usually goes before the verb or attribute; and the word or phrase, denoting the object, follows the verb ; as, " A wise man governs his passions.
עמוד 10 - 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.
עמוד 51 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us : and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.