English Grammar In Familiar Lectures Accompanied By A Compendiu

_Exercises_.--Peace of mind being secured we may smile at misfortune. To enjoy present pleasure he sacrificed his future ease and reputation. His talents formed for great enterp...

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 22d day of August, A.D. 1829, in the L. S. 54th year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samuel Kirkham, of the said district, hat...

This, with the copious definitions in every part of the work, and other improvements so judiciously introduced, gives it _a decisive superiority_ over the imperfect grammar of M...

3. In the fifth example, _what_, following _proved_, is a compound relative. _Thing_, the antecedent part, is in the nom. case after _to be_, understood, and put by apposition w...

Doubtless you have heard some persons assert, that they could detect and correct any error in language by the ear, and speak and write accurately without a knowledge of grammar....

But perhaps the advocates of what _they_ call a philosophical development of language, will say, that by their resolution of sentences, they merely supply an ellipsis. If, by an...

From what words is the term pronoun derived?--Do pronouns always avoid the repetition of nouns?--Name the three kinds of pronouns.--What distinguishes the personal from the rela...

2. When the qualifying word which follows a verb, expresses _quality_, it must be an adjective, but when it expresses _manner_, an adverb should be used; as, "She looks _cold;_...

NOTE 1. _Man_, following _great_, and _what_, in the last two examples, are nom. after _is_: RULE 21. _To seek God_, and _to die for one's country_, are members of sentences, ea...

I have told you, that when the nominative is singular number, the verb must be; when the nominative is plural, the verb must be; and when the nominative is first, second, or thi...

_Precision_, from _præcidere_, to cut off, signifies retrenching all superfluities, and pruning the expression in such a manner as to exhibit neither more nor less than an exact...

Remove yon scull from out the scattered heaps. Is that a temple, where a God may dwell? Why, ev'n the worm at last disdains her shattered cell! Look on its broken arch, its ruin...

The following rules are deemed important in practice, although they assist us in spelling only a small portion of the words of our language. This useful art is to be chiefly acq...

2. In order to avoid the disagreeable harshness of sound, occasioned by the frequent recurrence of the terminations _est, edst_, in the adaptation of our verbs to the nominative...

NOTE 1. When the possessor is described by a circumlocution, the possessive sign should generally be applied to the last term only; as, "The _duke of Bridgewater's_ canal; The _...

This brief view of the subject, is sufficient to elucidate the manner in which, according to Horne Tooke's principles, the ten parts of speech are reduced to one. But I am, by n...

The word "ones," in the preceding example, does not belong to a noun understood. If it did, we could supply the noun. The meaning is not "the great one men, nor ones men," there...

As you have been analyzing nouns in their three cases, it becomes necessary to present, in the next place, the declension of nouns, for you must decline every noun you parse. _D...

The adjectives _indifferent, excellent_, and _miserable_, are here improperly used, because adjectives do not express the degree of adjectives or adverbs, but such modifications...

A noun used without an article, or any other restrictive, is taken in its _general_ sense; as, _"Fruit_ is abundant;" "_Gold_ is heavy;" "_Man_ is born to trouble" Here we mean,...

NOTE. _Like, Worth_. The adjective _like_ is a contraction of the participle _likened_, and generally has the preposition _unto_ understood after it. "She is _like_ [_unto_] her...

Orlando left the herd grazing. The hunters heard the young dog barking. The old fox heard the sportsman's horn sounding. Deep rivers float long rafts. Purling streams moisten th...

NOTE 1.--When the words _learned_, _blessed_, _loved,_ &c. are used as participial adjectives, the termination _ed_ should generally be pronounced as a separate syllable; as, "A...

The term _indicative_, comes from the Latin _indico_, to _declare_. Hence, the legitimate province of the indicative mood, is to _declare_ things, whether positively or negative...

_Neuter_ means _neither:_ therefore neuter gender signifies neither gender; that is, neither masculine nor feminine. Hence, neuter gender means _no gender_. Strictly speaking, t...

For your encouragement, allow me to inform you, that when you shall have learned to conjugate the verb _to love_, you will be able to conjugate all the regular verbs in the Engl...

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8. Passive agents to verbs in the infinitive mood, should not be employed as active agents. The following are solecisms: "This house to let;" "Horses and carriages to let;" "Con...

RULE 4. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Continue, my dear child, to make virtue thy chief study. Canst thou expect, thou betrayer of innocence, to es...