 | John March Putnam - Textbooks - 1828 - 200 pages
...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...difficult to have invented such a species of beings : They ought to be, to interpose, to lose, to invent. 4. Two negatives, in English, destroy one another,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 766 pages
...great attention :" it ought to be ; " he appears to have studied" &c. " I cannot excuse the retnissness of those, whose business it should have been, as it..."to interpose, to lose, to invent." It is proper to inform the learner, that, in order to express the past time with the defective verb ought, the perfect... | |
 | J. M. Putnam - English language - 1831 - 174 pages
...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...found it difficult to have invented such a species of being: They ought to be, to interpose, to lose, to invent. 4. Two negatives, in English destroy one... | |
 | J. M. Putnam - English language - 1831 - 186 pages
...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...History painters would have found it difficult to have inrented such a species of being: They ought to be, lo interpose, to lose, to invent. 4. Two negatives,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1832 - 222 pages
...to be, " The last week I intended to write." The following sentences are also erroneous : "leannot excuse the remissness of those whose business it should...difficult to have invented such a species of beings." They ought to be, " to interpose, to lose, to invent." " On the morrow, because he should have known... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1833 - 240 pages
...arguments were sufficient to have satisfied all who heard them :" — "were sufficient to satisfy." " History painters would have found it difficult to have invented such a species of beings :" — " to invetil such a species." 5. General and immutable truths ought to be expressed in the present... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 pages
...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...difficult to have invented such a species of beings." They ought to be, " to interpose, to lose, to invent." "On the morrow, because he should have known... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - English language - 1834 - 202 pages
...intended to icrite." The following sentences are also erroneous : " I cannot excuse the remjssness of those whose business it should have been, as it...circumstances which made it necessary for them to luive lost no time." " History painters would have found it difficult to have invented such a species... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - English language - 1834 - 200 pages
...certainly was their interest, to have interposrd their good offices." " There were two circnmstances which made it necessary for them to have lost no time." " History painters wonld have fonnd it difficnlt to have invented snch a species of heings." They onght to he, to interpose,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1835 - 244 pages
...I intended to write." The following sentences are also erroneous : "I cannot excuse t.he remissncss of those whose business it should have been, as it...made it necessary for them to have lost no time." " Hi«£017 painters would have found it difficult to have invented such n species of beings." They... | |
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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... 
