Live and Learn: A Guide for All, who Wish to Speak and Write CorrectlyJ.F. Shaw, 1855 |
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5. oldal
... seem possible , even after the testimony of our senses . DIVISION OF WORDS INTO SYLLABLES . As a general principle , it may be observed that the syllables of a word are those divisions , which are made in a correct pronunciation of it ...
... seem possible , even after the testimony of our senses . DIVISION OF WORDS INTO SYLLABLES . As a general principle , it may be observed that the syllables of a word are those divisions , which are made in a correct pronunciation of it ...
29. oldal
... seems to contradict or form an exception to the Rule ; as the final consonant is preceded by more than one vowel ; but the Rule applies only to the last syllable , which contains no more than one vowel . Verbs ending in y , preceded by ...
... seems to contradict or form an exception to the Rule ; as the final consonant is preceded by more than one vowel ; but the Rule applies only to the last syllable , which contains no more than one vowel . Verbs ending in y , preceded by ...
41. oldal
... seems to be , that the English possessive termination is one of the parts of our language , which we have preserved from the Saxon . The casal termination of the Saxon possessive is es or is , as appears in such phrases as Godes sight ...
... seems to be , that the English possessive termination is one of the parts of our language , which we have preserved from the Saxon . The casal termination of the Saxon possessive is es or is , as appears in such phrases as Godes sight ...
43. oldal
... seems to be no good reason for joining an and other . An here excludes any other article : and analogy and consistency require that the words be separated . Their union has sometimes led to an im- proper repetition of the article ; as ...
... seems to be no good reason for joining an and other . An here excludes any other article : and analogy and consistency require that the words be separated . Their union has sometimes led to an im- proper repetition of the article ; as ...
54. oldal
... seems to be the want of an imperfect passive participle .'— And yet he uses the imperfect participle in a passive sense as often as most writers . " - Pickbourn's " Dissertation on the English Verb . " A distinguished Reviewer thus ...
... seems to be the want of an imperfect passive participle .'— And yet he uses the imperfect participle in a passive sense as often as most writers . " - Pickbourn's " Dissertation on the English Verb . " A distinguished Reviewer thus ...
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accent additional syllable beginning adjective adverb Æneid ambiguity applied to persons Author Beau belle called clause cloth collective noun comma congé d'élire connected connexion consonant denote Diaeresis double the final Drink Drank Drunk Dug Dug employed ending in silent English envelope Examples:-"The express feminine figure final consonant following sentence Foolscap 8vo form the plural formed by adding governed grammar hyphen imperfect implied inserted interrogatively IRREGULAR VERBS language last syllable Live and Learn Lord Masculine mean never nominative nouns ending object omitted passive past tense Perf perfect participle plural by adding plural number pluralise possessive preceded preposition pronoun propriety reference regular Reverend Right Honorable Royal 32mo rule Sawed Say scholar Scholium second person seen sense Shakspere signification silent e single vowel solecism sometimes superlative termination thee things thou tion transitive verb usage verbal noun Verbs ending vowel Words ending
Népszerű szakaszok
105. oldal - The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still lapse of ages.
106. oldal - The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
106. oldal - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
121. oldal - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
120. oldal - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
120. oldal - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
115. oldal - ship-boy on the high and giddy mast," but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot : yet if I was restless and discontented, I can safely say, it was not so much on account of this, as of my being precluded from all possibility of reading; as my master did not possess, nor do I recollect seeing during the whole time of my abode with him, a single book of any description, except the...
121. oldal - O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
96. oldal - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
120. oldal - But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign : Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain ^ Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And e'en in penance planning sins anew.