An Improved Grammar of the English LanguageDurrie and Peck, 1833 - 192 pàgines |
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Pàgina 31
... infinitive , is the nomina- tive to exceeded , and for that verb , it is a substitute . This inceptive use of it forms a remarkable idiom of our language , and deserves more particular illustration . It stands as the substitute for a ...
... infinitive , is the nomina- tive to exceeded , and for that verb , it is a substitute . This inceptive use of it forms a remarkable idiom of our language , and deserves more particular illustration . It stands as the substitute for a ...
Pàgina 54
... Infinitive Mode . 2. Another use of the verb is to affirm , assert or declare some action or existence , either positively , as , he runs , or negatively , as , you are not in health . This form is called the Indicative Mode . 3 ...
... Infinitive Mode . 2. Another use of the verb is to affirm , assert or declare some action or existence , either positively , as , he runs , or negatively , as , you are not in health . This form is called the Indicative Mode . 3 ...
Pàgina 55
... Infinitive , the Indicative , the Imperative , and the Subjunctive . It may also be observed that the combinations , and ar- rangements of our verbs and auxiliaries to express negative and interrogative propositions , are really modes ...
... Infinitive , the Indicative , the Imperative , and the Subjunctive . It may also be observed that the combinations , and ar- rangements of our verbs and auxiliaries to express negative and interrogative propositions , are really modes ...
Pàgina 61
... Infinitive Mode . To do Plural . We must n have loved Ye must n have loved You must n have loved They must n have loved We do n love S Ye do n love You do n love They do n love We did n love Ye did n love You did n love They did n love ...
... Infinitive Mode . To do Plural . We must n have loved Ye must n have loved You must n have loved They must n have loved We do n love S Ye do n love You do n love They do n love We did n love Ye did n love You did n love They did n love ...
Pàgina 63
... Infinitive Mode , Present Tense . - To be . Perfect Tense . - To have been . Participle of the Present Tense . - Being . Of the Perfect . - Been . Compound . Having been . Indicative Mode , Present Tense . I am n Thou OF THE ENGLISH ...
... Infinitive Mode , Present Tense . - To be . Perfect Tense . - To have been . Participle of the Present Tense . - Being . Of the Perfect . - Been . Compound . Having been . Indicative Mode , Present Tense . I am n Thou OF THE ENGLISH ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
accent adjective admit adverb affirmation Amphibrach attribute authors auxiliary called clause common conjunction connective considered construction definitive denotes distinct ellipsis English English language examples express fact future tense gender grammars hath Hence Hist idea idiom imperative mode indefinite indicative mode infinitive mode inflections intransitive irregular verb John joined language Latin letters Lord loved Thou loved Ye Lowth manner modifier n be loved n been loving nominative NOTE noun number of words object obsolete omitted original participle passages passive form past tense pause Perfect Tense personal pronoun phrases plural number Pope possessive preceding prefix preposition present tense principles Prior-Future Prior-Past qualities represents Rhet RULE Saxon sense sentence shalt or wilt signification singular number sometimes sound species subjunctive mode substitute suppose syllables tence termination thine things third person Thou shalt tion tive transitive verb Trochee true uttered verse vowel whole writers
Passatges populars
Pàgina 95 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Pàgina 154 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and, were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Pàgina 32 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Pàgina 84 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not...
Pàgina 168 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Pàgina 139 - For which cause we faint not ; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day
Pàgina 147 - Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Pàgina 36 - Another reason that makes me doubt of any innate practical principles is, that I think THERE CANNOT ANY ONE MORAL RULE BE PROPOSED WHEREOF A MAN MAY NOT JUSTLY DEMAND A REASON: which would be perfectly ridiculous and absurd if they were innate; or so much as self-evident, which every innate principle must needs be, and not need any proof to ascertain its truth, nor want any reason to gain it approbation. He would be...
Pàgina 167 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Pàgina 173 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.