 | Lindley Murray - 1829 - 766 pàgines
...cases, the sound of the /;. and to give the h its full pronunciation. - / or an IB styled the indefinite article ; it is used in a vague sense to point out...as, " Give me a book ;" " Bring me an apple." £ The ia called the definite article ; because it ascertains what particular thing or thing*) are meant:... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1829 - 120 pàgines
...in"*a vague sense, to point out one singl? thing of the kind, in other respects indetermina nate ; as, " Give me a book ;" •" Bring me an apple." '...ascertains what particular thing or things are meant ; as, " Gire me the book :" " Bring me the apples ;" meaning some book, or apples, referred to. A substantive,... | |
 | Roscoe Goddard Greene - 1830 - 124 pàgines
...consonant sound, a is used ; as, a hand, a heart, a highway. • A or ore (6) is styled the indefinite article ; it is used in a vague sense, to point out...as, " Give me a book ;" " Bring me an apple." The (7) is called the definite article ; because it ascertains what particular thing or things are meant;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 128 pàgines
...sounded, the a only is to be used; as, a hand, a heart, a highway. 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, determinate or indeterminate; as, * " Solomon built o temple in Jerusalem." " The Lord God planted... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1831 - 570 pàgines
...constitute a clase of words, or part of speech, than one, two, black, blue, &c. " A," says Lowth, " is used in a vague sense, to point out one single...thing of the kind, in other respects indeterminate. .4 becomes an before a vowel." Here we stumble at the threshhold. The verv first rule of our grammars... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 222 pàgines
...cases, the sound of the n, and to give the h its full pronunciation. A or an is styled the indefinite article : it is used in a vague sense, to point out one single thing of the kind, ia other respecta indeterminate : as, " Give me a book ;" " Bring rne an a\>ple." The is called the... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1832 - 644 pàgines
...them out as such, seems at first view to be the author's meaning ; but he says soon after, ' A or an is used in a vague sense, to point out one single THING of a kind ; as, give me a book.' Now, to point out nouns among the parts of speech, and to point out particular... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1833 - 202 pàgines
...indefinite signification and means one, with some reference to more." — Johnsons Diet. Grammar. "A is used in a vague sense to point out one single thing of the kind, in other respects indeterminate" — " a determines it to be one, single thing of the kind, leaving it still uncertain which." I^ncth's... | |
 | Andrew Dunlap - 1834 - 144 pàgines
...grammarians teach us, respecting the office of this article ? The rule in Murray is that the article. a " is used in a vague sense to point out one single thing of the kind in other respects determinate or indeterminate." The Trinitarian says Unitarians believe in a God which I do not. Is... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1834 - 320 pàgines
...grammarians teach us, respecting the office of this article ? The rule in Murray is that the article a " is used in a vague sense to point out one single thing of the kind in other respects determinate or indeterminate." The Trinitarian says Unitarians believe in a God which I do not. Is... | |
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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;" . 
