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... FEMININE , and NEUTER . By what would seem an odd caprice , most nations , ancient and mo- dern , have chosen to bestow a gender on things which in reality possess none : the English alone herein follow nature , and make all inanimate ...
... FEMININE , and NEUTER . By what would seem an odd caprice , most nations , ancient and mo- dern , have chosen to bestow a gender on things which in reality possess none : the English alone herein follow nature , and make all inanimate ...
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... feminine without an actual distinction of sex . Even a ship , which by sea- men is constantly spoken of as feminine , is neu- ter in common parlance . From this general rule , however , we must except , THE DEITY , GOD , or any other ...
... feminine without an actual distinction of sex . Even a ship , which by sea- men is constantly spoken of as feminine , is neu- ter in common parlance . From this general rule , however , we must except , THE DEITY , GOD , or any other ...
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... parent lan- guage , written . * This becomes yet more evi- It is however a fault rather common among our elder writers . The framers of the Liturgy have sancti- E dent if we take the genitive case of a feminine ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 49.
... parent lan- guage , written . * This becomes yet more evi- It is however a fault rather common among our elder writers . The framers of the Liturgy have sancti- E dent if we take the genitive case of a feminine ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 49.
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General principles. dent if we take the genitive case of a feminine noun : for it is clear that the phrase " the Queenes Majestie , " so frequently used by the writers of Elizabeth's reign , can never be made into the Queen his majesty ...
General principles. dent if we take the genitive case of a feminine noun : for it is clear that the phrase " the Queenes Majestie , " so frequently used by the writers of Elizabeth's reign , can never be made into the Queen his majesty ...
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... feminine singular of the possessive pronoun , agreeing with the feminine singular noun , mere or madre . In the English the genitive case of the primitive would be used , and we should say , his mother ; which has the advantage of ...
... feminine singular of the possessive pronoun , agreeing with the feminine singular noun , mere or madre . In the English the genitive case of the primitive would be used , and we should say , his mother ; which has the advantage of ...
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accusative action Addison adjective adverb agent alike Anglo-Saxon arrangement becomes called CAPTAIN compound tenses Concord conjunction dative declension defective auxiliaries derived distinction dual number English language farther feminine forcible gefeɲa gender genitive German govern grammarian Greek GREEK PHILOSOPHY guage gular hath horse idioms IMPERATIVE Mode implies INDICATIVE MODE INFINITIVE MODE inflection INTERJECTION interrogatively LADY NEUBRUNN Latin Lord Lord Byron love We Thou masculine modern languages nations neuter nominative noun Participle past Participle present PASSIVE VOICE peculiar person or thing phrase plural possessive pronoun preposition pression primitive pronoun PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMAR regular verb relative require rule Saxon sense sentence Shakespeare signifies simple future Sing singular sion Smith Southey speak speaker speech stand SUBJUNCTIVE MODE tence termed termination Teutonic thee THEKLA Thou hadst Ye thought tion tive translation universal grammar usual place verb transitive wholly indeclinable words writing
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