A Short Introduction to English Grammar: With Critical NotesJ. Dodsley, 1787 - 221 Seiten |
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... rules ? In this re- Spect , I am perfuaded , the charge is wholly without foundation . The English Language is perhaps of all the prefent European Languages by much the most fimple in its form and conftruction . Of all the antient ...
... rules ? In this re- Spect , I am perfuaded , the charge is wholly without foundation . The English Language is perhaps of all the prefent European Languages by much the most fimple in its form and conftruction . Of all the antient ...
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... rules . " In truth , the easier any fubject is in its own nature , the harder it is to make it more easy by ex- planation ; and nothing is more unnecessary , and at the fame time commonly more difficult , than than to give a formal ...
... rules . " In truth , the easier any fubject is in its own nature , the harder it is to make it more easy by ex- planation ; and nothing is more unnecessary , and at the fame time commonly more difficult , than than to give a formal ...
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... on without reflexion ; we meet with no rubs or difficulties in our way , or we do not perceive them ; we find ourselves able to go on without rules , and we do not fo much A 4 much as fufpect , that we ftand in need of PREFACE . vii.
... on without reflexion ; we meet with no rubs or difficulties in our way , or we do not perceive them ; we find ourselves able to go on without rules , and we do not fo much A 4 much as fufpect , that we ftand in need of PREFACE . vii.
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... rules of it . The examples there given are fuch as occurred in reading , without any very curious or methodical examination : and they might eafily have been much increafed in num- ber ber by any one , who had leifure or phlegm PREFACE .
... rules of it . The examples there given are fuch as occurred in reading , without any very curious or methodical examination : and they might eafily have been much increafed in num- ber ber by any one , who had leifure or phlegm PREFACE .
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... rules , and to illuftrate them by examples . But , be- fide fhewing what is right , the matter may be further ... rule and example ; but I am fure we have none , that in the manner here attempted , teaches us what is right by shew ...
... rules , and to illuftrate them by examples . But , be- fide fhewing what is right , the matter may be further ... rule and example ; but I am fure we have none , that in the manner here attempted , teaches us what is right by shew ...
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Addifon Adjective Adverb agreeing alfo alſo anſwer Antecedent Auxiliary Auxiliary Verb becauſe Bentley Comma confonant conftruction Conjunction difcourfe diftinction diphthong Dryden Effay English English Language example expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feems fenfe feveral fhall fhort fhould fignifies fimple firft firſt fitten fome fometimes fpoken ftand ftill ftyle fubject fuch fyllable Gender governed Grammar hath Ibid improperly Indicative Mode Infinitive Mode inftances inſtead Irregular Irregular Verbs itſelf laft Language lative Letter likewife Milton moſt muſt Nominative Cafe Noun obferved obfolete Objective Cafe occafion paffion Paffive Paft Participle paufe Phrafe phraſe Plural Number Poffeffive Cafe pofition Pope Prefent preffed Prepofition profe Pronominal Pronoun purpoſe reafon refpect Saxon Sentence Serm Shakeſpear Spect Subft Subftantive Subjunctive Mode Swift tence thee thefe theſe thing third Perfon Singular thofe thoſe thou tive underſtood uſed Verb Active Verb Neuter vowel whofe words