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Improved, and Adapted to the Present Mode of Instruction in this Branch of
Science Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond. The subjunctive ... The infinitive mode is
distinguished from all others, by its admitting no nominative before it. A verb, in
any ...
Improved, and Adapted to the Present Mode of Instruction in this Branch of
Science Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond. The subjunctive ... The infinitive mode is
distinguished from all others, by its admitting no nominative before it. A verb, in
any ...
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Improved, and Adapted to the Present Mode of Instruction in this Branch of
Science Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond ... The infinitive mode has been improperly
used in the following sentences : ' I am not like other men, to envy the talents I
cannot ...
Improved, and Adapted to the Present Mode of Instruction in this Branch of
Science Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond ... The infinitive mode has been improperly
used in the following sentences : ' I am not like other men, to envy the talents I
cannot ...
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Improved, and Adapted to the Present Mode of Instruction in this Branch of
Science Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond ... The infinitive mode absolute seems to
supply the place of the conjunction that with the potential mode ; as, ' To confess
the truth ...
Improved, and Adapted to the Present Mode of Instruction in this Branch of
Science Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond ... The infinitive mode absolute seems to
supply the place of the conjunction that with the potential mode ; as, ' To confess
the truth ...
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can we determine what governs a verb .in the infinitive mode ? — Are adverbs
ever used as substantives ? — Mention an instance? — What is the effect of two
negatives in English ? — Are participles ever used as prepositions ?
can we determine what governs a verb .in the infinitive mode ? — Are adverbs
ever used as substantives ? — Mention an instance? — What is the effect of two
negatives in English ? — Are participles ever used as prepositions ?
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Improved, and Adapted to the Present Mode of Instruction in this Branch of
Science Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond ... When the action or event, signified by a
verb in the infinitive mode, is contemporary or future, with respect to the verb to
which it ...
Improved, and Adapted to the Present Mode of Instruction in this Branch of
Science Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond ... When the action or event, signified by a
verb in the infinitive mode, is contemporary or future, with respect to the verb to
which it ...
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Page 167 - Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see : and they glorified the God of Israel.
Page 158 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Page 161 - God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Page 86 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 188 - Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house : and the place where thine honour dwelleth. 9 O shut not up my soul with the sinners : nor my life with the blood-thirsty; 10 In whose hands is wickedness : and their right hand is full of gifts.
Page 164 - to write" was then present to me, and must still be considered as present, when I bring back that time, and the thoughts of it. It ought, therefore, to be, " The last week I intended to write." The following sentences are also erroneous : " I cannot excuse the remissness of those whose business it should have been, as it certainly was their interest, to have interposed their good offices." "There were two circumstances which made it necessary for them to have lost no time." " History painters would...
Page 147 - Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Page 143 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Page 221 - WISDOM crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets : she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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| Title | Murray's System of English Grammar: Improved, and Adapted to the Present Mode of Instruction in this Branch of Science |
| Authors | Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond |
| Edition | 6 |
| Publisher | Dorr, Howland, 1835 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 27 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 70 pages |
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