Live and Learn: A Guide for All, who Wish to Speak and Write CorrectlyJ.F. Shaw, 1855 |
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... Gender 7. On the Formation of the Plural Number of Nouns 8. On the Verb . 9. On the Participle 10. On Shall and Will 11. On Irregular Verbs • 12. Corresponding Conjunctions . 13. Miscellaneous Observations on Points , that occasion ...
... Gender 7. On the Formation of the Plural Number of Nouns 8. On the Verb . 9. On the Participle 10. On Shall and Will 11. On Irregular Verbs • 12. Corresponding Conjunctions . 13. Miscellaneous Observations on Points , that occasion ...
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... " A collective noun , or noun of multitude , is a name , that denotes a collection of many individuals ; as , school , flock , people , assembly . 13 ON GENDER . Gender is the distinction of objects 12 ON NOUNS . On Nouns.
... " A collective noun , or noun of multitude , is a name , that denotes a collection of many individuals ; as , school , flock , people , assembly . 13 ON GENDER . Gender is the distinction of objects 12 ON NOUNS . On Nouns.
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... gender ; as , man , brother , king , father . Nouns , which denote females , are of the feminine gender ; as , woman , sister , queen , mother . Nouns , which denote objects neither male nor fe- male , are of the neuter gender ; as ...
... gender ; as , man , brother , king , father . Nouns , which denote females , are of the feminine gender ; as , woman , sister , queen , mother . Nouns , which denote objects neither male nor fe- male , are of the neuter gender ; as ...
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... gender of nouns fol- lows the order of nature ; but in the Greek , Latin , and German tongues , the grammatical genders are frequently assigned without regard to sex ; while in the French , Italian , & c . , which have no neuter gender ...
... gender of nouns fol- lows the order of nature ; but in the Greek , Latin , and German tongues , the grammatical genders are frequently assigned without regard to sex ; while in the French , Italian , & c . , which have no neuter gender ...
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... Boy girl Dog bitch Bridegroom bride Drake duck Brother sister Earl countess Bull COW Father mother Buck doe Friar or monk nun Bullock heifer Gaffer gammer Masculine . Feminine . Masculine . Gander Gentleman goose Master ON GENDER . 15.
... Boy girl Dog bitch Bridegroom bride Drake duck Brother sister Earl countess Bull COW Father mother Buck doe Friar or monk nun Bullock heifer Gaffer gammer Masculine . Feminine . Masculine . Gander Gentleman goose Master ON GENDER . 15.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 105 - 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.
Seite 106 - 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.
Seite 106 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
Seite 121 - 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.
Seite 120 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Seite 120 - 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.
Seite 115 - 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...
Seite 121 - 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...
Seite 96 - 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.
Seite 120 - 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.