English Grammar in Familiar Lectures: Accompanied by a Compendium : Embracing a New Systematic Order of Parsing, a New System of Punctuation, Exercises in False Syntax, and a System of Philosophical Grammar in Notes : to which are Added an Appendix, and a Key to the Exercises : Designed for the Use of Schools and Private LearnersMarshall & Dean, 1834 - 228 pàgines |
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according to RULE action active verb active-transitive verb adjective pronoun adverbs agreeably to RULE antecedent apple apply in parsing belong comma compound conjugation conjunction connected construction correct DEFECTIVE VERBS denotes derived diphthong employed English English language examples EXERCISES IN PARSING express FALSE SYNTAX gender give governed imperative imperative mood imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood Kirkham language learner lecture letter loved manner meaning mind moods and tenses neuter verb nominative noun or pronoun objective order of parsing passive verb perceive perf perfect participle personal pronouns PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES phrase Pluperfect Tense Plur poss possessive potential mood preposition Pres present tense principles pron relative pronoun second person sense sentence signifies Sing singular number sometimes sound speak speech subjunctive mood syllable SYSTEMATICK ORDER tence termination thing third person thou tion tive transitive verb understood virtue vowel walk words write
Passatges populars
Pàgina 223 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Pàgina 167 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.
Pàgina 194 - God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Pàgina 223 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Pàgina 170 - Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul: Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII.
Pàgina 225 - But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. 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.
Pàgina 169 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Pàgina 115 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Pàgina 228 - If the spring put forth no blossoms, in summer there will be no beauty, and in autumn, no fruit: so, if youth be trifled away without improvement, manhood will probably be contemptible, and old age miserable.
Pàgina 163 - OH happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ? whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'er-look'd, seen double, by the fool, and wise.