Henry's English Grammar; a Manual for BeginnersRivingtons, 1853 - 219 pages |
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Abbreviated Adverbial Sentences abstract subst accessory sentence accusative action active voice added adjective adverb apostrophe marking assertion attributive auxiliary verb belonging called child clause condition conjunctions consonant copula dative defended denote drowned English express fallen falling flower following Exercise genitive Grammar Hence Henry horse imperative mood Indefinite Numerals infinitive mood intransitive John joined Latin Lesson letter mark Mary means mother nominative notion nouns object omitted participial substantive passive voice past participle past tense perfect definite perfect tense person or thing personal pronoun Pluperfect Plural Number predicate preposition present tense Preterite principal sentence relative pron relative pronoun relative sentence second person simply foretell singular number sometimes sound speak speech stantive subjunctive sword syllable tall tence thing-word third person Thou thought tive transitive verb vowel wish words in italics wound write written yesterday وو
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Page 47 - My lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation, complain to your lordship, as first minister, that our language is extremely imperfect; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Page 96 - And a far-off wind that rushes, And a sound of water that gushes, And the cuckoo's sovereign cry Fills all the hollow of the sky. Who would ' go parading ' In London, 'and masquerading...
Page 49 - I have heard of a formal old gentleman, who, finding his horse uneasy under the saddle, alighted, and called to his servant in the following manner : — . " Tom, take off the saddle which is upon my bay horse, and lay it upon the ground ; then take the saddle from thy grey horse, and put it upon my bay horse ; lastly, put the other saddle upon thy grey horse.
Page 107 - Pointing, the lovely moralist said : See, friend, in some few fleeting hours, See yonder, what a change is made. Ah me! the blooming pride of May, And that of beauty are but one: At morn both...
Page 33 - ... the object of the preposition by. 465. In turning a sentence from the Active Voice to the Passive, the Object of the active verb becomes the Subject of the passive.
Page 67 - Indian garden, things of consequence; visit them with pleasure, and muse upon them with ten times more. I am pleased with a frame of four lights, doubtful whether the few pines it contains will ever be worth a farthing; amuse myself with a greenhouse which Lord Bute's gardener could take upon his back, and walk away with; and when I have paid it the accustomed visit, and watered it, and given it air, I say to myself...
Page 156 - Principles, but varied in a thousand different and contrary modes, according to that infinite variety of laws and customs which is established for the same universal end, the preservation of Society. We shall feel...
Page 169 - ... and I said within myself, ' What are these things to me, who am damned ?' In a word, I saw myself a sinner altogether, and every way a sinner ; but I saw not yet a glimpse of the mercy of God in Jesus Christ. " The capital engine in all the artillery of Satan had not yet been employed against me. Already overwhelmed with despair, I was not yet sunk into the bottom of the gulf. This was a fit season for the use of it; accordingly I was set to inquire, whether I had not been guilty of the unpardonable...
Page 40 - ... increase of our family caused us to remove to a larger house, then just built, Allan Bank, in the same vale, where our two younger children were born, and who died at the rectory, the house we afterwards occupied for two years. They died in 1812, and in 1813 we came to Rydal Mount, where we have since lived with no further sorrow till 1836, when my sister became a confirmed invalid, and our sister Sarah Hutchinson died.
Page 37 - 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.