The Elements of Grammar, According to Dr. Becker's System, Displayed by the Structure of the English Tongue; Arranged as a Practice for Translation Into Foreign LanguagesLongman, Brown, and Longmans, 1847 - 156 pages |
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accessory sentence expresses accusative adverbial object Adverbial Sentences assertion attributive relational auxiliary verbs bear bird brother called causality change of vowel child commonly completing object compound conceived conditional sentence conjugation conjunctions connected connexion copulative dative declension denoting distinguished drink English existence factitive flower garden genitive genus grammar Greek Language IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect Tense indicated individual object inflection interrogative kind king language live logical manner never notional words noun objective combination particular passive voice past participle person or thing person who speaks persons and things Pluperfect Tense plural praised predicate prepositions principal accent principal sentence relation of locality relational words relations of notions relations of thought relative pronoun rich signification sings sleep speaker spoken spring strong verbs subordinate species substantive pronouns substantive sentence supine thee thought of cognition transitive verb tree verb or adjective whither wine
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