A Short Introduction to English Grammar: With Critical NotesJ. Dodsley, 1774 - 161 oldal |
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v. oldal
... fome hundreds and almost the whole business of Modes , Times , and Voices , is managed with great eafe by the affiftance of eight or nine commodious little Verbs , called from their ufe Auxiliaries . The Conftruction of this Language is ...
... fome hundreds and almost the whole business of Modes , Times , and Voices , is managed with great eafe by the affiftance of eight or nine commodious little Verbs , called from their ufe Auxiliaries . The Conftruction of this Language is ...
ix. oldal
... fome Language already known ; in which the terms are to be explained , and the rules exemplified . The learner is fupposed to be unacquainted with ail , but` his native tongue ; and in what other , confiftently with reafon and common ...
... fome Language already known ; in which the terms are to be explained , and the rules exemplified . The learner is fupposed to be unacquainted with ail , but` his native tongue ; and in what other , confiftently with reafon and common ...
x. oldal
... fome fhort and clear Syftem of English Grammar , which happily by its fimplicity and facility is perhaps fitter than that of any other Language for such a pur- pofe ; they would have fome notion of what they were going about , when they ...
... fome fhort and clear Syftem of English Grammar , which happily by its fimplicity and facility is perhaps fitter than that of any other Language for such a pur- pofe ; they would have fome notion of what they were going about , when they ...
15. oldal
... fome words derived from the Greek ; and it is always a vowel [ 1 ] . [ 1 ] The fame found , which we exprefs by the initial y , our Saxon Ancestors in many inftances expreffed by the vowel e ; as cower , your and by the voweli ; as iw ...
... fome words derived from the Greek ; and it is always a vowel [ 1 ] . [ 1 ] The fame found , which we exprefs by the initial y , our Saxon Ancestors in many inftances expreffed by the vowel e ; as cower , your and by the voweli ; as iw ...
16. oldal
... fome not at all , and thefe are called Mutes ; b , c , d , g , k , p , q , t : others very imperfectly , making a kind of obfcure found ; and thefe are called Semi - vowels , or Half - vowels , l , m , n , r , f , s ; the first four of ...
... fome not at all , and thefe are called Mutes ; b , c , d , g , k , p , q , t : others very imperfectly , making a kind of obfcure found ; and thefe are called Semi - vowels , or Half - vowels , l , m , n , r , f , s ; the first four of ...
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Addifon Adjective Adverb alfo alſo antient Article Atterbury Auxiliary Auxiliary Verb bave becauſe beft Bentley Caſe Compariſon confonant conftruction Conjunction defign diftinction diphthong diſtinguiſhed Dryden Effay English example expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feems fenfe feveral fhall fhort fhould fignifies firft firſt fitten fome fometimes ftand ftill fubject fuch fuffer fyllable governed Grammar hath Ibid improperly Indicative Mode Infinitive Mode inftances inftead Irregular itſelf Language laſt Letter liary likewife manner Milton miſtake moft moſt Neuter Nominative Cafe Noun obferved Objective Cafe occafions paffion Paffive Paft Participle pauſes Phalaris Phrafe Phraſe Plural Number Poffeffive Cafe Pope Prefent Prepofition Pronominal Adjectives Pronoun reafon refpect reft Saxon ſeems Sentence Serm Shakeſpear ſhall Spect ſpoken Subft Subftantive Subjunctive Mode Swift tence thee thefe themſelves theſe thing third Perfon Singular thofe thoſe thou tive underſtood uſed Verb Active Verb Neuter vowel whoſe words
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33. oldal - Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
92. oldal - 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.
119. oldal - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed Innumerable.
120. oldal - ... less apt to affect the sense of it, and to give it a new meaning ; and may still be considered as belonging to the verb, and as a part of it. As, to cast, is to throw; but to cast up, or to compute, an account, is quite a different thing : thus, to fall on, to bear out, to give over, &c.
136. oldal - Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye ? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
13. oldal - Grammar in general, or Universal Grammar, explains the Principles which are common to all languages. The Grammar of any particular Language, as the English Grammar, applies those common principles to that particular language, according to the established usage and custom of it.
149. oldal - The principle may be defective or faulty, but the consequences it produces are so good, that for the benefit of mankind, it ought not to be extinguished.
146. oldal - The paffion for praife, which is fo very vehement in the fair fex, produces excellent effects in women of fenfe.
131. oldal - If there be but one body of legislators, it is no better than a tyranny ; if there are only two, there will want a casting voice...
26. oldal - too careless an author. The indefinite article can be joined to substantives in the singular number only ; the definite article may be joined also to plurals. But there appears to be a remarkable exception to this rule, in the use of the adjectives few and many, (the latter chiefly with the word great before it,) which, though joined with plural substantives, yet admit of the singular article a ; as, a few men ; a great many men. The reason of it is manifest, from the effect which the article has...