A German Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Based on the Public School German Grammar of A.L. Meissner

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Pagina 220 - Germany, called *|SIatt=®eutfct) — but all are included in the general term Germanic, or Teutonic. 405. There were thus already considerable diversities of speech between the High-German and the earliest English, as will be more fully shown below (§ 407, etc.). These diversities have been still further increased by historical causes subsequently (§ 414, etc.), so that the kinship of English to German is not always so obvious as its relation to other languages (as French or Latin). Still, this...
Pagina 308 - Every one," says Mr. Baring-Gould, '• knows that the moon is inhabited by a man with a bundle of sticks on his back, who has been exiled thither for many centuries, and who is so far off that he is beyond the reach of death. He has once visited this earth, if the nursery rhyme is to be credited when it asserts that...
Pagina 286 - He did it in order to frighten us. 2. I never saw this place without thinking of my old friend. 3. I have to write several letters. 4. We eat in order to live ; we do not live in order to eat. 5. It was a pleasure to see these happy people. 6. I am ready to follow you everywhere. 7. We are going to walk ; will you go with [us] ? 8. To err is human ; to forgive is divine. 9. He thinks he is (infin.') a great man.
Pagina 286 - Without considering the question further, we followed the advice of the physician. 12. Keep your seat (remain sitting). 13. No time is to be lost. 14. The art of flying is yet to be invented. 15. We found him lying under a tree. 16. He was tired of waiting. 17. He has promised us to bring the books with [him]. 18. The servant came to put out the lights. 19. The patient is too weak to undertake such a long journey. 20. He took it without asking me. 21. The count has not money enough to buy this estate....
Pagina 96 - ... to show. 202. Rules of Position. 1. A pronoun object will precede a noun object. 2. An indirect object will usually precede a direct object. 3. But e3 precedes any other object, except (often) fid). 4. An object without a preposition will precede an object with a preposition. 5. An adverb of time will precede an object, except pronouns; other adverbs usually follow an object. 6. An infinitive or participle stands after its modifiers. 203. Remember that the indirect object — in English with...
Pagina 159 - EXERCISE XXXI. -A. i. Es freut mich, Sie wieder zu sehen. 2. Wie geht es Ihnen, alter Freund ? 3. Regnet es ? Nein, es schneit. 4. Hat es gestern gedonnert ? 5. Nein, aber es hat gehagelt und geregnet. 6. Es versteht sich, dass wir nicht ausgehen, sondern zu Hause bleiben, wenn es regnet. 7. Was fehlt Ihnen ? 8. Es fehlt mir nichts, ich befinde mich ganz wohl. 9. Was ärgert Sie ? 10. Es ärgert mich, von diesem Menschen betrogen worden zu sein.
Pagina 281 - I was unwilling to believe, that. it may be now three months. it may be as you say. it must needs be so. I have been obliged to keep my room. I am obliged to go. I could not help laughing — should have to laugh, he must surely be sick. You must know (/ want you to know). who can it have been ? he surely cannot yet be there. they will come, unless they are prevented.
Pagina 108 - ... 230. 3. The third class contains all strong verbs which have for their root-vowel a, with a few others. It is subdivided into two groups according to the vowel of the past tense. Examples : — a) fatten, to fall.
Pagina 288 - ... (whether he will come). NOTE. — It may again be remarked that the English infinitive in -ing in such cases must be carefully distinguished from the participle. (§ 480, 2, b.) 2.

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