The institutes of English grammar1856 |
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according to Rule adjective adjuncts adverb agree anapestic antecedent apposition auxiliary classes clause comma common noun compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant construction denotes derived diphthong ellipsis employed English Grammar examples EXERCISE express FALSE SYNTAX finite verb FORMULE.-Not proper governed Grammar of English grammarians hast honour imperative mood Imperfect Tense improper diphthong improve indicative mood infinitive mood interjection language learned learner LESSON letters loved meaning Murray neuter gender never nominative Note noun or pronoun object OBSERVATIONS ON RULE parsing passive perfect participle phrase Pleonasm Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive potential mood Praxis preceded prefixed preposition Present Tense preterit principal reading relation require Saxon says second person singular semivowels sense sentence signifies simple singular number sometimes sound speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood syllable SYNTAX UNDER RULE teacher term thee third person thou art tion triphthong virtue vowel wise words write
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