An initiatory grammar of the English language |
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action active verb adjectives adverbs amuse auxiliary beautiful beginning behold brother catch classes of words CONDITIONAL MOOD Conjugate consonant dest diphthong EDINBURGH EDINBURGH ACADEMY enemies ENGLISH GRAMMAR English Language Etymology EXAMPLES father following adjectives following nouns following sentences following verbs formed by adding Future Perfect Tense Future Tense gender hath honour horse IMPERATIVE MOOD INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD Interrogation KEY TO DITTO king lady letter loved Past Tense mood express mountains nest nominative object open sounds Orthography PARSING PARTICIPIAL MOOD passive verb passive voice Past Participle Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive POTENTIAL MOOD Prefix Preposition Present Tense Put a comma put a verb queen relative pronoun Rule sailing Shalt or wilt shut sounds singular number superlative syllable Tense denotes thing third persons singular Thou hast trees Triphthong verb express vowels walk Write sentences Write the following Write their names
Popular passages
Page 81 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
Page 53 - Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 40 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 47 - The Scian and the Teian Muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute Have found the fame your shores refuse. Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires
Page 59 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 58 - Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Page 108 - O'erflow thy courts: the Light himself shall shine Revealed, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ! But fixed his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own Messiah reigns ! ALEXANDER POPE.
Page 48 - And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money : and he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
Page 46 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 104 - He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.