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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Related booksCommon terms and phrasesAbridgment according to rule adjective pronoun Adverb agrees with nouns comma common substantive Compound Perfect Conjugate the following conjunction connect correspondent tenses DEFECTIVE VERBS definite article derived diphthong English EXERCISES IN PARSING express following verbs gender govern the objective happy heart honor IMPERATIVE MOOD indefinite indefinite article indicative mood INFINITIVE MOOD Interjection kind lative letter live loved 2 Thou loved 2 Ye loved Imperfect Tense loved loved loved Perfect mayst or canst mind nominative omitted ORTHOGRAPHY passions passive voice pause peace personal pronoun plural number possessive POTENTIAL MOOD preposition Present Tense proper relative pronoun require a verb rule xi Rules of Syntax says Second Future Tense SECT Semicolon sentence singular number sound SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD syllable temper Tense represents thee thing third person singular Thou art Thou mayst Thou mightst tion tive mood vice virtue virtuous vowel wise word Write the following Popular passagesPage 65 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit... Page 92 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball? Page 90 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Page 91 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. Page 27 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled. Page 89 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. Page 34 - TO BE. INDICATIVE MOOD. PRESENT TENSE. Singular. Plural. 1. I am. 1. We are. 2. Thou art. 2. Ye or you are. 3. He, she, or it is. 3. They are. IMPERFECT TENSE. Singular. Plural. 1. I was. 1. We were. 2. Thou wast. Page 41 - TENSE. SINGULAR. PLURAL. 1. If I were loved. 1 . If we were loved. 2. If thou wert loved. 2. If ye or you were loved. 3. If he were loved. Page 63 - Tones. TONES are different both from emphasis and pauses ;* consisting in the modulation of the voice, the notes or variations of sound which we employ in the expression of our sentiments. Page 62 - QUANTITY. The quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to be slowly joined, in pronunciation, to the following letter ; as, "Fall, bale, mood, house, feature. Bibliographic information
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