First Lessons in Grammar: Based Upon the Construction and Analysis of Sentences ; Designed as an Introduction to the "Analysis of Sentences"

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Cowperthwait & Company, 1860 - 192 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 159 - But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Pàgina 163 - I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Pàgina 43 - A noun or pronoun must represent either the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of.
Pàgina 49 - The simple word, or positive, becomes the comparative, by adding r or er; and the superlative, by adding st or est, to the end of it: as, wise, wiser, wisest j great, greater, greatest.
Pàgina 35 - A preposition is a word used to show the relation between a noun or pronoun and some other word ; as, above, with, into.
Pàgina 173 - Fain promise never more to disobey; But, should my Author health again dispense, Again I might desert fair virtue's way; Again in folly's path might go astray; Again exalt the brute and sink the man; Then how should I for heavenly mercy pray, Who act so counter heavenly mercy's plan? Who sin so oft have mourn'd, yet to temptation ran?
Pàgina 188 - Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Pàgina 21 - Every word of more than one syllable, has one of its syllables accented. When the word is long, for the sake of harmony or distinctness, we often give a secondary or less forcible accent to an other syllable ; as, to the last of tem-per-a-ture, and to the second of in-dem-nifi-cd-tion.
Pàgina 35 - An adverb is a word used to modify the meaning of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Pàgina 97 - Vice is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case : and is the subject of degrades ; according to the rule which says, ' A noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a verb, must be in the nominative case.

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