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... Wife . Boar . Sow . King . Queen . Boy . Girl . Lad . Lafs . Brother . Sifter . Lord . Lady . Buck . Doe . Man . Woman . Bull . Cow . Master . Mistress . Steer . Bullock , or ? Heifer . Milter . Spawner . Cock . Hen . Nephew . Ram ...
... Wife . Boar . Sow . King . Queen . Boy . Girl . Lad . Lafs . Brother . Sifter . Lord . Lady . Buck . Doe . Man . Woman . Bull . Cow . Master . Mistress . Steer . Bullock , or ? Heifer . Milter . Spawner . Cock . Hen . Nephew . Ram ...
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... wife , wives . Thofe which end in ff have the regular plural , as , ruff , ruffs . Such as have y in the fingular , with no other vowel in the fame fyllable , change it into ies in the plural ; as , beauty , beauties ; fly , flies ; but ...
... wife , wives . Thofe which end in ff have the regular plural , as , ruff , ruffs . Such as have y in the fingular , with no other vowel in the fame fyllable , change it into ies in the plural ; as , beauty , beauties ; fly , flies ; but ...
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... The pofitive ftate expreffes the quality of an object , without any increase or diminution ; as , good , wife , great . The comparative degree increases or leffens the pofitive in fignification ; as , wifer , greater 20 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... The pofitive ftate expreffes the quality of an object , without any increase or diminution ; as , good , wife , great . The comparative degree increases or leffens the pofitive in fignification ; as , wifer , greater 20 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... wife , wifer , wifeft ; great , greater , greatest . And the adverbs more and moft , placed before the adjective , have the fame effect ; as , wife , more wife , most wife . Monofyllables , for the moft part , are com pared by er or eft ...
... wife , wifer , wifeft ; great , greater , greatest . And the adverbs more and moft , placed before the adjective , have the fame effect ; as , wife , more wife , most wife . Monofyllables , for the moft part , are com pared by er or eft ...
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... wife man governs his paf- fions . " Here a wife man is the fubject ; governs the attribute , or thing affirmed ; and his passions , the object . Syntax principally confifts of two parts , Con- cord and Government . Concord is the ...
... wife man governs his paf- fions . " Here a wife man is the fubject ; governs the attribute , or thing affirmed ; and his passions , the object . Syntax principally confifts of two parts , Con- cord and Government . Concord is the ...
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Abridgment active verb Adjective Pronouns adverb alfo becauſe beſt coft common fubftantive Conjugate the following conjunction correfpondent DEFECTIVE VERBS defire English eſteemed EXERCISES exprefs fame fays fecond felf fenfe fentence ferve fhall fhort fhould have loved fhow fignifies fingular number firſt following verbs fome fometimes fubject fubjunctive mood fuch Future Tense fyllable gender happineſs happy honour Imperative Mood imperfect tenfe Imperfect Tense indicative mood induſtry Infinitive Mood Interjections Irregular Verbs larger Grammar lative moft moſt muſt neuter nominative cafe nouns objective cafe ORTHOGRAPHY ourſelves paffions paffive parfing PARSING Perf perfect participle perfonal pronoun pleaſure Pluperfect Tense plural number poffeffive cafe Potential Mood prepofition Present Tense refpect regular verb ſchool SECT ſeparate ſhall Singular ſtudy tenfe tenſes themſelves theſe thing third perfon fingular thofe thoſe Thou art Thou mayft Thou mightſt ufed uſed verb active virtue voice vowel wife wiſdom word wouldft Write the following
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Page 13 - English, nine sorts of words, or, as they are commonly called, PARTS OF SPEECH ; namely, the ARTICLE, the SUBSTANTIVE or NOUN, the ADJECTIVE, the PRONOUN, the VERB, the ADVERB, the PREPOSITION, the CONJUNCTION, and the INTERJECTION.
Page 95 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 50 - Syntax principally consists of two parts, Concord and Government Concord is the agreement which one word has with another, in gender, number, case, or person. Government is that power which one part of speech has over another, in directing its mood, tense, or case.
Page 45 - Shred, Shut, Sing, 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, Imperfect, shred, shut, sung, sang, sunk, sank, sat, slew, slept, slid, slung, slunk, slit, R.
Page 57 - ACCENT. Accent is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice on a certain letter or syllable in a word, that it may be better heard than the rest, or distinguished from them : as, in the word presume, the stress of the voice must be on the letter u, and second syllable sume, which takes the accent.
Page 97 - All nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance, direction which thou can'st not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. Heav'n's choice is safer than our own . Of ages past inquire, What the most formidable fate;
Page 97 - Who lives to nature, rarely can be poor ; Who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
Page 98 - Whilft all the ftars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And fpread the truth from pole to pole, Vot. HI. O o What III. What tho' in folemn filence all Move round the dark terreftrial ball ? What tho' nor real voice nor found Amid their radiant orbs be found?
Page 43 - R. come. coft. crowed. crept. cut. dared. dealt, R. dug, R. done. drawn. driven. drunk. dwelt, R. eaten. fallen. fed. felt. fought, found.
Page 50 - RULE II. Two or more nouns, fyc. in the singular number, joined together by a copulative conjunction, expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number: as " Socrates and Plato were wise; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece;" " The sun that rolls over our heads, the food that we receive, the rest that we enjoy, daily admonish us of a superior and superintending Power.