Common School Grammar: an Introduction to the Analytical and Practical Grammar: With Practical Lessons and Exercises in CompositionSheldon, 1871 - 142 pages |
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active voice adjective pronoun adjunct adverb affirmation antecedent attributive verb auxiliary belong called comma conjunction connected consonant copula correct defective verb denotes dependent clause EXPLANATION.-This express father feminine fish lives following Exercise following sentences gender give the Rule grammatical predicate grammatical subject horse IMPERATIVE MOOD indefinite INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood inflected Interjection interrogative intransitive IRREGULAR VERBS James John letters logical predicate logical subject masculine neuter nominative noun or pronoun number and person object omitted parse passive voice Past Participle past tense PERF person or thing person singular personal pronouns phrases plural possessive pronouns POTENTIAL MOOD preceding Lessons prefixed preposition PRESENT TENSE PRESENT-PERFECT TENSE proper pupil QUESTIONS requires second person sense single sentence sometimes SPECIAL RULES speech stone subjunctive mood syllable tell tence thing spoken third person tive transitive verb wise Write short sentences
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Page 131 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 80 - Tis, do to others as you would That they should do to you.
Page 85 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Page 134 - My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.
Page 135 - The colon is used to divide a sentence into two or more parts, less connected than those which are separated by a semicolon ; but not so independent as separate distinct sentences.
Page 136 - For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Page 7 - ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ENGLISH GRAMMAR is the art of speaking and writing the English Language with propriety.
Page 132 - Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Page 121 - By the thirteenth rule of syntax, when verbs are used that, in point of time, relate to each other, the order of time should be observed. The imperfect tense visited should, therefore, have been had visited, in the pluperfect tense, representing the.
Page 137 - Adjectives derived from the proper names of places; as, Grecian, Roman, English, French, and Italian. 6. The first word of a quotation, introduced after a colon, or when it is in a direct form ; as, Always remember this ancient maxim :