The Key to English Grammar: In which the Most Difficult Examples of Syntax are Illustrated, to Abridge the Labour of the Instructor and Facilitate the Progress of the Learner |
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3ps agr a n com ng a v irreg neut a v reg act action active verb adverb qualifying agree anteced antecedent apposition article agr called comprised in Note conjunction dare denotes the person disjunctive durst ellipsis English Grammar English language frequently Gender denotes Give the examples govern Imperative Mode Imperfect Tense Indicative Mode infinitive mode irreg neut ind Jehovah king lative LESSON Lord love Thou loved Ye loving Tense mg 3ps nc modes and tenses neuter verbs ng 3ps nominative Note 1st Note 2d objective OBSER omitted passive verb perfect participle person denotes personal pronouns Peter struck Pluperfect Tense plural number Pope pos deg belonging poss possessive adjective pronoun preposition pres part agr present participle Present Tense refer Relative Pronouns rule 13 Second Future Tense SECTION sentence singular number sometimes Subjunctive Mode syntax thing third person Thou hadst Thou mayst tion tive understood wise
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Page 23 - The Second Future intimates that the action will be fully accomplished, at or before the time of another future action or event : as, " I shall have dined at one o'clock ;" " The two houses will have finished their business, when the king comes to prorogue them.
Page 36 - Here, a wise man is the subject ; governs, the attribute, or thing affirmed ; and his passions, the object.'; Syntax principally consist of two parts, Concord and Government. , Concord is the agreement which one word has with another, in gender, number, case, or person.
Page 25 - THE Conjugation of a verb, is the regular combination and arrangement of its several numbers, persons, moods, and tenses.
Page 25 - TENSE. Singular. Plural. 1. I had had. 1. We had had. 2. Thou hadst had. 2. Ye or you had had. 3. He had had. 3. They had had.
Page 38 - When a nominative comes between the relative and the verb, the relative is governed by some word in its own member of the sentence : as, " He who preserves me, to whom I owe my being, whose I am, and whom I serve, is eternal.
Page 53 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 20 - Irregular Verbs. IRREGULAR Verbs are those which do not form their imperfect tense, and their perfect participle, by the addition of d or ed to the verb: as, Present.
Page 36 - SYNTAX, which treats of the agreement and construction of words in a sentence. A sentence is an assemblage of words, forming a complete sense. Sentences are of two kinds, simple and compound A simple sentence |ias in it but one subject, and one finite* verb : as, " Life is short." A compound sentence consists of two or more simple sentences connected together : as, " Life is short, and art is long.
Page 53 - Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love to urge, and reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill.
Page 25 - TENSE. SINGULAR. PLURAL. 1. I had had. 1. We had had. 2. Thou hadst had. 2. Ye or you had had. 3. He had had. 3. They had had.