An English Grammar for SchoolsLondon, 1876 - 122 pages |
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active voice Adjective clause adverb Adverbial clause apposition attribute Auxiliary of tense common gender common noun conjugated conjunction consonant dative demonstrative adjective direct object doubly underline employed to denote EXERCISE Expl following sentences formed by adding Future Indefinite Tense Future Perfect Tense gerund grammatical IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect Indef indicative mood infinitive mood Irregular and intransitive limits the meaning Masc METHOD OF PARSING Neut noun or pronoun Parse the nouns passive voice Past Indefinite Tense Past Perfect Tense past tense Perf Perfect Continuous Tense perfect participle person or thing personal pronouns Phrase plural number preceded preposition Present Indefinite Tense Present Perfect Tense present tense Principal clause principal verb QUANTITATIVE ADJECTIVES relative pronoun second person shouldst or wouldst Sing singular number sitive verb sound speak subjunctive mood superlative syllable taken taking third person Thou hadst Thou shouldst Trans transitive verb vowel
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Page 118 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona...
Page 50 - PERFECT TENSE Singular Plural 1 I have been 1 We have been 2 Thou hast been 2 You have been 3 He has been 3 They have been PLUPERFECT (PAST PERFECT) TENSE Singular Plural...
Page 51 - They might have been. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. Present Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. If I be, 1. If we be, 2. If thou be, 2. If you be 3. If he be ; 3. If they be. Imperfect Tense. Singular. . Plural. . 1. If I were, 1. If we were, 2. If thou wert, 2.
Page 51 - PAST PERFECT TENSE. Singular. Plural. 1. If I had been, 1. If we had been, 2. If thou hadst been, 2. If you had been, 3. If he had been; 3. If they had been.
Page 49 - In the first Person simply shall foretells ; In will a Threat, or else a Promise dwells. Shall, in the second and the third, does threat ; Will simply, then, foretells the future feat.
Page 50 - PERFECT TENSE. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been, 1. We have been, 2. Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been ; 3. They have been. PAST TENSE. 1. I was, 1. We were, 2. Thou wast, 2. You were, 3. He was; 3. They were. PAST PERFECT TENSE. 1. I had been, 1. We had been, 2.
Page 100 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 38 - So good, so noble, and so true a master ? Bear witness all that have not hearts of iron, With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord.
Page 50 - Future Tense. . Singular. Plural. 1. I shall have been. 1. We shall have. been. 2.
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