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Active verbs ADJECTIVES adverbs apple ARITHMETIC art and mystery bacon beer measure bill called compound conjunction cough cure divided DIVISION donkey drachm drams DRY MEASURE dulge EXAMPLE expresses eyes feet figures fraction gallons gender given number Gravesend head IMPERFECT TENSE indicative mood indulged indulged indulged PLURAL inflection Jack kinds little boy mamma master measels mouth multi MULTIPLICATION mutton Neuter verbs never NINE TAILS nominative nose Nouns objective Oh dear Old Bailey ounces 1 pound passive voice pence pennyweight perfect PERFECT TENSE pints PLUPERFECT TENSE pocket Poss PREPOSITION PRESENT TENSE pudding quart RELATIVE PRONOUNS rods rule salt SECOND FUTURE TENSE sentence shillings signifies SINGULAR sounds speak subtraction of money syllabub teeth thee thing thou indulge tongue Troy Weight vowels water cure Weights and Measures whipped wilt wish word yards young
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Page 32 - Formed with the qualities which we love, not with the talents that we admire, she was an agreeable woman rather than an illustrious queen. The vivacity of her spirit, not sufficiently tempered with sound judgment, and the warmth of her heart, which was not at all times under the restraint of discretion, betrayed her both into errors and into crimes. To say that she was always...
Page 8 - Blessings attend us on every side; be grateful, children of men !" that is, ye childre'n of men. SECTIONS. Of Gender. GENDER is the distinction of nouns, with regard to sex. There are three genders, the MASCULINE, the FEMININE, and the NEUTER. The Masculine Gender denotes animals of the male kind : as, a man, a horse, a bull.
Page 12 - A PRONOUN is a word used instead of a noun ; as John is a good boy ; he is diligent in his studies.
Page 15 - For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Page 14 - ... bird, and stole the young ones. None performs his duty too well. None of those. poor wretches complain of their miserable lot. NOTE. In parsing the distributive pronominal adjectives, NOTE 2, under Rule 19, should be applied.
Page 19 - 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.
Page 33 - Here, a toise man is the subject ; governs, the attribute, or thing affirmed ; and his passions, the object. 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.
Page 48 - I began to go into the dining room after dinner, and into the drawing room when there was company. It did not matter how naughty I had been all day, the ladies there always called me pretty and good ; my neck was very white, and my hair hung down in curls, and my eyes felt very bright ; and I was always very nicely dressed. I suppose it was looking pretty made me good — nobody ever called me good at any other time.
Page 47 - ... contents of her desk and workbox, and to have the ornaments from the chimney-piece, and I thought other people should do so too, but they did not ; and they always seemed glad when I was sent out of the room. When I cried in the nursery or in the kitchen, the servants gave me sugared bread and butter, and when I cried again, because it made me sick, they slapped me for being cross. I was very sorry when I had finished cutting my teeth, for all the while they were coming I never did any thing...
Page 58 - ALL vocal sounds may be divided into two kinds, namely, speaking sounds, and musical sounds. Musical sounds are such as continue a given time on. one precise point of the musical scale, and leap, as it were, from one note to another ; while speaking sounds, instead of dwelling on the note they begin with, slide* either upwards, or downwards, to the neighbouring notes, without...