A Practical Grammar of the English LanguageJohn P. Morton & Company, 1846 - 254 pàgines Series title on front cover. |
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... proper mode of spelling words . LETTERS . A letter is a character used to represent an articulate sound . An articulate sound is the sound of the human voice formed by the organs of speech . There are twenty - six letters in the English ...
... proper mode of spelling words . LETTERS . A letter is a character used to represent an articulate sound . An articulate sound is the sound of the human voice formed by the organs of speech . There are twenty - six letters in the English ...
Pàgina 7
... proper triphthong is one in which all the vow- els are sounded ; as , uoy in buoy . What consonants are semi - vowels ? What is said of x ? Which of the semi - vowels are called li- quids ? Why ? What is a diphthong ? -a proper diph ...
... proper triphthong is one in which all the vow- els are sounded ; as , uoy in buoy . What consonants are semi - vowels ? What is said of x ? Which of the semi - vowels are called li- quids ? Why ? What is a diphthong ? -a proper diph ...
Pàgina 10
... proper sound is retained without doubling . 3. If the derivative removes the accent to another syllable , the consonant is not doubled . Thus , refer is accented on the last syllable , fer ; but in ref- erence the accent is removed from ...
... proper sound is retained without doubling . 3. If the derivative removes the accent to another syllable , the consonant is not doubled . Thus , refer is accented on the last syllable , fer ; but in ref- erence the accent is removed from ...
Pàgina 16
Noble Butler. CLASSES OF NOUNS . Nouns are divided into two classes ; proper and common . A proper noun is the name of an individual ob- ject ; as , John , Vesuvius . A common noun is a name applied to all objects belonging to the same ...
Noble Butler. CLASSES OF NOUNS . Nouns are divided into two classes ; proper and common . A proper noun is the name of an individual ob- ject ; as , John , Vesuvius . A common noun is a name applied to all objects belonging to the same ...
Pàgina 17
... proper nouns - three common . 3. Put a proper noun instead of each of the following dashes . behaves well . He knows - . good girls . - knows her lesson . - - I saw and - I went to town . - can jump farther than - - and - killed are is ...
... proper nouns - three common . 3. Put a proper noun instead of each of the following dashes . behaves well . He knows - . good girls . - knows her lesson . - - I saw and - I went to town . - can jump farther than - - and - killed are is ...
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accented action active voice adjuncts anapestic antecedent apple apposition auxiliary perfect participle beautiful Cæsar called comma common noun connected consonant correct defective verb denote dependent clause English equivalent expressed feet feminine finite verb flowers following sentences Future Perfect FUTURE PERFECT TENSE George grammatical predicate grammatical subject happy hath heaven horse imperative mood imperfect INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood interjections interrogative intransitive killed king language letter limiting adjective live loved masculine modified noun or pronoun number and person o'er object participial noun passive participle passive voice past tense pause person singular PLUPERFECT plural possessive potential mood preceding predicate nominative preposition PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE refer relative clause relative pronoun Remark Rule xii sense singular number sound subjunctive mood superlative sweet Tell thee thing third person tive transitive verb trochee virtue vowel wish words write written
Passatges populars
Pàgina 194 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Pàgina 234 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Pàgina 229 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Pàgina 196 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Pàgina 243 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Pàgina 250 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Pàgina 245 - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye.
Pàgina 232 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Pàgina 252 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Pàgina 223 - It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright...