A Shorter English Grammar with Copious and Carefully Graduated ExercisesW.J. Gage, 1879 - 253 páginas |
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... singular and plural ; the verbs had more variety in their personal terminations . greater part of these inflexions were dropped in the course of the three cen- turies following the Norman Conquest , the grammatical functions of several ...
... singular and plural ; the verbs had more variety in their personal terminations . greater part of these inflexions were dropped in the course of the three cen- turies following the Norman Conquest , the grammatical functions of several ...
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... singular of the personal pronoun of the first person , and for any noun , adjective , or pronoun , used in speaking of the Divine Being . They may also be used at the beginning of a common noun , when it is used in a special or ...
... singular of the personal pronoun of the first person , and for any noun , adjective , or pronoun , used in speaking of the Divine Being . They may also be used at the beginning of a common noun , when it is used in a special or ...
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... singular number stands for one collection of several individual things , as herd , parliament , multitude . In the plural it stands for several such collections . An Abstract Noun is the name of a quality , action , or state , as ...
... singular number stands for one collection of several individual things , as herd , parliament , multitude . In the plural it stands for several such collections . An Abstract Noun is the name of a quality , action , or state , as ...
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... to replace it . Such a plural as parents is of necessity common . A singular noun so used that the context does not show the sex of the person spoken of , is treated as masculine . 22 C ( horse , dog ) , and some feminine ( NOUN . 17.
... to replace it . Such a plural as parents is of necessity common . A singular noun so used that the context does not show the sex of the person spoken of , is treated as masculine . 22 C ( horse , dog ) , and some feminine ( NOUN . 17.
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... Singular and the Plural The Singular Number of a noun is that form of it which is used when we speak of one of the things for which the noun stands , as ship , horse , herd . * Formerly our language had a dual number , in the personal ...
... Singular and the Plural The Singular Number of a noun is that form of it which is used when we speak of one of the things for which the noun stands , as ship , horse , herd . * Formerly our language had a dual number , in the personal ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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.