Abridgement of Murray's English Grammar: With an Appendix, Containing Exercises in Orthography, in Parsing, in Syntax, and in Punctuation : Designed for the Younger Classes of Learners |
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Abridgment according action active addition adjective Adverb agrees animals beauties better comes common comparative Compound Conjugate conjunction connect declined derived divided English Exercises express following verbs frequently Future Tense gender give governed Grammar happy heart hope Imperfect Tense improve indicative mood kind language larger less live loved Male manner marked mind nature neuter nominative nouns objective omitted ORTHOGRAPHY PARSING particular passions passive peace Perfect personal pronoun Pluperfect Plural possessive preposition Present Tense pronoun proper regular relation relative repeat require respect reward rich RULE says SECT sense sentence short shouldst Singular sometimes sorts sound speech SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantive syllable Syntax thing third person Thou Thou art tion tree true verb vice virtue voice vowel whole wise woman word Write the following
Passatges populars
Pàgina 51 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Pàgina 80 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Pàgina 80 - If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed. Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.
Pàgina 79 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Pàgina 82 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim : Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.
Pàgina 41 - A phrase is two or more words rightly put together, making sometimes part of a sentence, and sometimes a whole sentence. The principal parts of a simple sentence are, the subject, the attribute, and the object. 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,...
Pàgina 6 - AN Article is a word prefixed to substantives, to point them out, and to show how far their signification extends ; as, a garden, an eagle, the woman.
Pàgina 80 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Pàgina 4 - A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. A primitive word is that which cannot be reduced to any simpler word in the language ; as, man, good, content.
Pàgina 6 - A or an is styled the indefinite article : it is used in a vague sense, to point out one single thing of the kind, in other respects indeterminate : as, " Give me a book;" .