A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English LanguageOliver Steele & Company, 1807 - 250 pages |
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accent adjectives admit adverbs affirmation Amphibrach Anarch attri attribute authors auxiliars called clause common conjunction connective considered construction definitive denotes distinct English English Language examples express fact future tense gender Grammar Greek guage hath Hist idea idiom indefinite Indicative Mode inflections John joined language Latin Lect letters Locke Lord loved Thou loved Ye Lowth Lusiad manner modifiers n be loved n been loved nominative NOTE noun object obsolete omitted original orthography passage past tense pause Perfect Tense phrase plural number Pope possessive preceding prefixed preposition present tense primitive principles Prior-past pronoun qualities radical verb Rambler remark represents Rhet RULE Saxon sense sentence signification singular number species stitute subjunctive substitute supposed syllables Tacitus tence things third person tion tive transitive verb Trochee true usage verbal or participle verse vowel whole writers ʼn been loving