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Page 57
... Plural . Singular . Plural . Table . Tables . Book . Books . Chair . Chairs . Log . Logs . Street . Streets . Top . Tops . Cab . Cabs . Cow . Cows . Exercise 73 . a . Give the Plural Numbers of : Pen . Cat . Pencil . Desk . Bottle ...
... Plural . Singular . Plural . Table . Tables . Book . Books . Chair . Chairs . Log . Logs . Street . Streets . Top . Tops . Cab . Cabs . Cow . Cows . Exercise 73 . a . Give the Plural Numbers of : Pen . Cat . Pencil . Desk . Bottle ...
Page 58
... Plural is formed by adding s ; if the y does not follow a vowel the Plural is formed by changing the y into i and adding es ; as : - - Y following a vowel . Y not following a Vowel . Singular . Plural . Singular . Plural . Valley ...
... Plural is formed by adding s ; if the y does not follow a vowel the Plural is formed by changing the y into i and adding es ; as : - - Y following a vowel . Y not following a Vowel . Singular . Plural . Singular . Plural . Valley ...
Page 59
... Plural . Men . Man . Woman . Women . Foot . Feet . Goose . Geese . Tooth . Teeth . Mouse . Mice . ( 2 ) By adding en , as : - Singular . Ox . Brother . Child . Plural . Oxen . Brethren . Children . 98. Some Nouns have the same form for ...
... Plural . Men . Man . Woman . Women . Foot . Feet . Goose . Geese . Tooth . Teeth . Mouse . Mice . ( 2 ) By adding en , as : - Singular . Ox . Brother . Child . Plural . Oxen . Brethren . Children . 98. Some Nouns have the same form for ...
Page 60
... Plural for a time , but after the word comes to be looked upon as thoroughly English it often forms its Plural in the English way . Nouns with Foreign Plurals . I. - Latin . ( a ) First Declension . S. Formul - a Larv - a Nebul - a P ...
... Plural for a time , but after the word comes to be looked upon as thoroughly English it often forms its Plural in the English way . Nouns with Foreign Plurals . I. - Latin . ( a ) First Declension . S. Formul - a Larv - a Nebul - a P ...
Page 61
... in the Singular . So Mrs. or Miss is generally used in the Sin- gular when Mes - dames is used in the Plural . IV . - Hebrew . S. Seraph Cherub P. Seraph - im Cherub - im COLLECTIVE NOUNS . 101. Though an army is made up NUMBER.
... in the Singular . So Mrs. or Miss is generally used in the Sin- gular when Mes - dames is used in the Plural . IV . - Hebrew . S. Seraph Cherub P. Seraph - im Cherub - im COLLECTIVE NOUNS . 101. Though an army is made up NUMBER.
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Abstract Noun Adjective Clause Adjuncts Adverbial Clause Analyse the following baby Barbara Frietchie bassoon birds brother child comes Conjunction Conjunctive Adverbs Declension English Examples Exercise father fell Feminine flowers following sentences pick formed Fred garden Gender Gerund girl Give grammatical gender hear heard horse IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect Indicative Mood Infinitive Mood Jack John joining words king lady Latin live Mary Masculine mother Neuter Nominative Notes for Teachers Noun Clause Noun or Pronoun o'er parsing Perfect Continuous Perfect Participle PERFECT TENSE person or thing Plural Number Predicate Preposition PRESENT INDEFINITE TENSE printed in italics qualifies Read Relative Pronoun servant sing Singular Number sister soldier speaking Speech Subject Subjunctive Mood Suffixes tell thee thief thing named Thou Transitive Verb tree Verbs of Incomplete Verbs to show walk William wind window words joined write
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Page 186 - I did consent, And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange, Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Page 122 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade...
Page 234 - Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 123 - SWEET AUBURN! loveliest village of the plain; Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 21 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Page 170 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 93 - His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast— If he may know which way to go; For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him.
Page 111 - 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.
Page 209 - His steps are not upon thy paths— thy fields Are not a spoil for him— thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay.
Page 126 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.