Elementary Lessons, Being a Course of Instruction for the Deaf & Dumb, 1. osaEgbert, Hovey & King, 1849 |
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adjectives animal apple Auxiliary Verbs bad dog basket bite blue boy runs boy swims brown rat Brush brushes brushing brushes careless carries catches chair chickens child climbed clothes coat colt crawling crayons deaf and dumb digging garden dirty drink duck Examples father fence fish flies frock girl sews goose green handkerchief imperfect tenses John jumping kicks killed kiss kitten knife lady lambs large boys laughing lift little bird little boy long pen looking Mary milk Miss molasses NAMES WITH CUTS nouns nuts objects oxen participle pen Bring pencils phrases playing plough Plural Preposition present Preterite pretty pupil Quadrupeds rabbit reading lessons red book ribbon riding SECTION sheep short pens sitting skate slate sometimes squirrel standing stick stone stool tall black teacher tenses tortoise tree trot verbs walking whip woman words yellow Yes sir yesterday
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Page ii - Preface to the Second Edition. " The first edition of this work having...
Page 25 - Compound numbers between 21 and 99 are written with a hyphen. • twenty-one • ninety-nine 0 zero 10 ten 20 twenty 1 one 11 eleven 21 twenty-one 2 two 12 twelve 22 twenty-two 3 three 13 thirteen 23 twenty-three 4 four 14 fourteen 24 twenty-four 5 five 15 fifteen 25 twenty-five 6 six 16 sixteen 26 twenty-six 7 seven 17 seventeen 27 twenty-seven 8 eight 18 eighteen 28 twenty-eight 9 nine 19 nineteen 29 twenty-nine These are selected cardinal numbers between 30 and 1000.
Page 239 - Possessive 1 me my you you your he him his she her her it it its we us our they them their who whom whose ' I Because a pronoun is used in place of a noun, it must have a noun to relate to.
Page 169 - She cannot. (NOTE. — These auxiliaries have, except in the scriptural style, no variation of number or person ; as : — I can , you can, he can, we can, you can, they can. I may, you may, he may, we may, &c.) May signifying Possibility. It may rain to-morrow. We may all die to-night. Will you go to the city lo-morrow. Perhaps 1 may go.
Page 269 - ... such phrases as are accurately adapted to describe pictures. In so doing we shall teach the phrases that accurately express the ideas excited in the minds of the deaf and dumb, by attempts to explain the verbs representing sensible actions by pictures, by real scenes or by pantomime. It is not...