Elements of the Grammar of the English Language |
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1st pers 1st person 3d pers 3d person adjective agreeing adjective qualifying admire adverb agreeing with apple agreeing with boy agreeing with favour agreeing with John agreeing with pen assembly bell sounds clear boy who studies child who loves clude coldly received conjunction English language esteem following the verb gend girl who sits governing the verb Grammar Grammarians infin infinitive mode Infinitive.-To John are obedient John is mending John's sister kinds of words Love thou love to read love You love loved They loved masculine gender New-Burgh noun of multitude nouns and pronouns numb Paul the Apostle Peter and John Peter's book play is pleasant plur plural number preposition pres qualifying education qualifying the verb rogues RULE VII RULE XI RULE XV sentence sexes singular number slit steal strowed Thou art tive took the book Transitive verbs verbal adjective verbal noun virtuous is wise
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Page 40 - Deal, Dig, Do, Draw, Drive, Drink, Dwell, Eat, Fall, Feed, Feel, Fight, Find, Flee, Fling, Fly, Forget...
Page 42 - Shut, Sing, Sink, Sit, Slay, Sleep, Slide, Sling, Slink, Slit, Smite, Sow, Speak, Speed, Spend, Spill...
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Page 42 - Present. sink sit slay sleep slide sling slink slit smite sow speak speed spend spill spin spit split spread spring stand steal stick sting stink stride strike string strive...
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Page 41 - Imperfect. loaded, lost, made, met, mowed, paid, put, read, rent, rid, rode, rung, rang, rose, rived, ran, sawed, said, saw, sought, sold, sent, set, shook, shaped, shaved, sheared, shed, shone, R. showed, shod, shot, shrunk, shred, shut, sung, sang, sunk, sank, sat, slew, slept, Perf or Pass.
Page 19 - XX. The infinitive mood, or part of a sentence, is sometimes used as the nominative to a verb; as, "To err is human;" "His heing too idle was the cause of his ruin.