An Analytical and Practical Grammar of the English LanguageFarmer, Brace & Company, 1857 - 244 pagine |
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abridged active voice adjective adjective pronoun adjunct adverb affirms antecedent apposition auxiliary belong Cæsar called comma common compared compound sentence conjunction connected connexion construction copula correct denote dependent clause English examples EXERCISES expressed following sentences gender governed grammarians grammatical predicate grammatical subject honor horse IMPERATIVE MOOD implied indefinite indicative infinitive mood interrogative intransitive James John language letter logical predicate logical subject loved masculine meaning modified neuter never noun or pronoun object omitted parsed passive voice past participle past tense past-perfect person or thing personal pronoun phrases plural poetry possessive POTENTIAL MOOD preceding prefixed preposition present tense present-perfect proper properly qualify reference regarded relative pronoun respect RULE sense simple sometimes speech spoken subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllable Syntax thee third person thou tion tive transitive verb Trochee understood usage verse vowel words write
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Pagina 59 - Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Pagina 77 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Pagina 127 - ... whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Pagina 131 - For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Pagina 213 - Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things, ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Pagina 59 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Pagina 111 - God : and, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
Pagina 212 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy, heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions...
Pagina 195 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Pagina 179 - RULE XVIII. Conjunctions connect the same moods and tenses of verbs, and cases of nouns and pronouns ; as, " Candour is to be approved and practised ;" " If thou sincerely desire, and earnestly pursue virtue, she •will assuredly be found by thee, and prove a rich reward ;" " The master taught her and me to write ;" " He and she were school-fellows.