A System of English GrammarOliver & Boyd, 1845 - 168 pages |
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... AUTHORS . WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES . For Use in Schools and in Private Study . By CHARLES WALKER CONNON , M. A. , English Master of the Western Academy , Glasgow , And late Principal of the English Department of the High School ...
... AUTHORS . WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES . For Use in Schools and in Private Study . By CHARLES WALKER CONNON , M. A. , English Master of the Western Academy , Glasgow , And late Principal of the English Department of the High School ...
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... authors have violated the rules . These sentences he is required - by way of practical exercise - to correct by reference to the rule , and a comparison with the passages from the same authors in which grammatical propriety has been ...
... authors have violated the rules . These sentences he is required - by way of practical exercise - to correct by reference to the rule , and a comparison with the passages from the same authors in which grammatical propriety has been ...
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... authors , I have seldom gone farther back for in- stances of violation than the time of Hume , Robertson , and Gibbon . It would have been very easy to find , in great num- bers , what would at present be accounted errors , in Addison ...
... authors , I have seldom gone farther back for in- stances of violation than the time of Hume , Robertson , and Gibbon . It would have been very easy to find , in great num- bers , what would at present be accounted errors , in Addison ...
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... authors insist on giving the Greek language an ablative case , with the same termination , however , as the dative ( though by the way they had better have fixed on the genitive , which oftener answers to the Latin ablative ) ; urging ...
... authors insist on giving the Greek language an ablative case , with the same termination , however , as the dative ( though by the way they had better have fixed on the genitive , which oftener answers to the Latin ablative ) ; urging ...
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... authors . - Johnson . The boy stood on the burning deck . - Hemans . Age , that lessens the enjoyment of life , increases our desire of living . - Goldsmith . 3. Resolve the following possessives into the objective of the noun and the ...
... authors . - Johnson . The boy stood on the burning deck . - Hemans . Age , that lessens the enjoyment of life , increases our desire of living . - Goldsmith . 3. Resolve the following possessives into the objective of the noun and the ...
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abstract nouns Adam Smith adverb affirmed AFFIXES Alison Alnascar ascer assertion belong Cæsar called class of words clause common comparative comparison compound conjunction connected connexion considered consonant copula correct dative Defective Verbs definition denoting derived distinction English language error etymology examples EXERCISE expressed feminine Future Perfect Tense gender give grammar grammarians Greek Hallam idea indicates Infinitive inflection James reads John king Latham Latin mark masculine meaning Milton mind moods nature neuter nominative nouns substantive Numeral Adjectives object observed original orthography parsing passive voice PAST TENSE Perfect Participle plural possessive POTENTIAL MOOD predicate preposition Present Tense principle pupil qualifying the noun refer relative pronoun remark represent respect rules of syntax sense Shakspeare signification singular sometimes sort sound speak speech spoken superlative thee thing Thou thought tion tive transitive verb truth verb violated vowel Wordsworth write