The First Lines of English Grammar: Being a Brief Abstract of the Author's Larger Work, the Institutes of English Grammar, Designed for Young Learners |
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accent according to Rule active-transitive adjective adjuncts adverbial phrase adverbs anapestic antecedent apposition attribute called CHAPTER classes Complex adverbial complex declarative sentence Conjugation conjunction connected consonant DEFECTIVE VERBS denotes dependent clause diphthong distinguished ellipsis EXAMPLE EXERCISE expresses figure finite verb First-future Tense FORMULE.-Not proper happy imperative IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect Tense indicative mood INFINITIVE MOOD LESSON letters modifications neuter gender neuter verb nominative noun or pronoun Orthography parsing Perfect Participle person and number person singular Pluperfect Tense Plur plural number Poss possessive potential moods preceded predicate prefixes the auxiliary Preperfect preposition Present Tense Preterit principal reading relation second person seen signifies Simple adjective simple declarative sentence singular number sometimes sound speaker SUBJUNCTIVE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD syllable Syntax tense prefixes thee things third person Thou hast thou love Thou mayst Thou mightst Thou wilt tion triphthong truth understood uttered vowel wise word
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Page 116 - 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 102 - And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment; and he saith unto him, Friend, how earnest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?
Page 106 - Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. How interesting this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence!
Page 105 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 107 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 35 - As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth...
Page 115 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Page 76 - Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel ; For your sake I...
Page 12 - Our sons their fathers' failing language see, And such as Chaucer is, shall Dryden be.