The intellectual grammarSimpkin Marshall and Company, 1852 - 104 pages |
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accent active verb ACTIVE VOICE Adjective Pronouns adjuncts Adverb qualifying Adverbs affirmed agrees Anglo-Saxon Auxiliary called clause common substantive compound Conjunction consonant Copulative Definite Article denotes derived diphthong English language ETYMOLOGY EXERCISES express favoured PLURAL favoured SINGULAR feminine following sentences following words formed Give an example Give examples give the examples governed Grammar Grammarians horse IMPERATIVE MOOD IMPERFECT TENSE Indefinite indicative mood Infinitive Mood inflection INTERJECTIONS INTERROGATIONS ON CHAPTER intransitive Irregular Verbs meaning MODEL LESSONS Name Nominative NUMBER AND PERSON object ORTHOGRAPHY Parsing PAST OR IMPERFECT Perfect Participles end person or thing personal pronoun phrases Pluperfect Tense plural number position POTENTIAL MOOD preceded prefixed Preposition PRESENT TENSE Queen RELATIVE PRONOUNS Repeat Rule shalt or wilt signifies silent simple singular number Singular Plural sometimes sound like oo speech SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD superlative syllable SYNTAX TENSE represents termination Thou transitive Verbs understood vowel Words ending write
Popular passages
Page 96 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 13 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel : as, wit, witty ; thin, thinnish ; to abet, an abettor ; to begin, a beginner.
Page 88 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give: When thou hast it by thee.
Page 88 - And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me. 40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way ; and thou shalt take a wife for my son...
Page 11 - Monosyllables ending with f, I, or s, preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant; as staff, mill, pass, &c.
Page 68 - Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Page 3 - Consonants are divided into mutes and semi-vowels. The mutes cannot be sounded at all, without the aid of a vowel. They are b, p, t, d, k, and c and g hard.
Page 97 - Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
Page 68 - Many of the endowments and talents we now possess, and of which we are too apt to be proud, will cease entirely with the present state; but this will be our ornament and dignity in every future state to which we may be removed. Beauty and wit will die, learning will vanish away, and all the arts of life be soon forgot ; but virtue will remain for ever.
Page 12 - When a termination is added to a word ending in y, preceded by a consonant, the y is changed to i; as, try, trial.