The Comic English Grammar: A New and Facetious Introduction to the English TongueMethuen, 1903 - 228 páginas |
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accent additional long syllable addressed ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS adverbs Amphibrach amusement Anapæstic verse Burke called CHRONONHOTONTHOLOGOS CILKS COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR comparison conjugation conjunction considered consonant crested foam definite article denote diphthong discourse dissyllables Ditto drink English language example expression feet feminine former syllable gender gentleman He've hear Iambic Iambuses IMPERATIVE MOOD imperfect tense improper INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood Interjection kind language latter syllable letter Lindley Murray lover means mind neuter never nominative nonsense verses nouns object pause peculiar perhaps phrases pine-apple rum poet prefixed preposition PRESENT TENSE pronunciation Proper names Prosody Pyramus and Thisbe reader REGULAR VERBS rule SECTION sentence sholl or ool short syllable singular number sometimes sound speaking species consists speech spelling SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantives superlative Syntax teaches thee thing thou tion Trochaic trochees tzig voice vowel words young ladies دو وو
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Página 113 - Syntax principally consists of two parts, Concord and Government. Concord is the agreement which one word has with another, in gender, number, case, or person. Government is that power which one part of speech has over another, in directing its mood, tense, or case.
Página 115 - RULE I. A verb must agree with its nominative case, in number and person : as, "I learn;" "Thou art improved;"
Página 84 - The Conjugation of a verb is the regular combination and arrangement of its several numbers, persons, moods, and tenses. The conjugation of an active verb is styled the ACTIVE VOICE ; and that of a passive verb, the PASSIVE VOICE. The auxiliary and active verb to have is conjugated in the following manner : TO HAVE.
Página 11 - ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ENGLISH GRAMMAR is the art of speaking and writing the English Language with propriety.
Página 70 - tis both a shame and a sin ; And the dean my master is an honester man than you and all your kin :He has more goodness in his little finger than you have in your whole body : My master is a parsonable man, and not a spindleshank'd hoddy doddy.
Página 75 - A Verb Passive expresses a passion or a suffering, or the receiving of an action; and necessarily implies an object acted upon, and an agent by which it is acted upon: as, to be loved; "Penelope is loved by me.
Página 111 - A phrase is two or more words rightly put together, making sometimes part of a sentence, and sometimes a whole sentence. The principal parts of a simple sentence are the subject, the attribute, and the object. The subject is the thing chiefly spoken 'of; the attribute is the thing or action affirmed or denied of it; and the object is the thing affected by such action. • The nominative denotes the subject, and usually goes before the verb or attribute; and the word or phrase denoting the object,...
Página 34 - An Article is a word prefixed to substantives, to point them out, and to show how far their signification extends : as, a garden, an eagle, the woman.
Página 188 - This measure is defective in dignity, and can seldom be used on serious occasions. 2. The second English form of the trochaic consists of two feet; and is likewise so brief, that it is rarely used for any very serious purpose. On the mountain By a fountain.
Página 78 - There are three Participles, the Present or Active, the Perfect or Passive, and the compound Perfect ; as,