Grammar and Its Reasons: For Students and Teachers of the English TongueA.S. Barnes, 1907 - 375 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
adjective adjective pronouns adverbs agreement analysis ancient antecedent assertive attribute auxiliary belongs called century character clauses colloquial common comparison compound conjugation conjunction connection construction copula dative definition distinction elements English grammar English language expression fact feminine future gender gerund give given gram grammarians idea idiom idiomatic impersonal important indirect object infinitive inflectional forms interjections interrogative intransitive knowledge Latin limit literary literature meaning modal modern English modified needs neuter nominative noun old English older original parsing passive past participle past tense peculiar personal pronouns plural possessive predicate preposition present principles questions relative relative pronoun rule Saxon seems sense sentence singular sometimes speak speech split infinitive strong verbs student subjunctive mood syntax teaching tences term text-books thee third person thou thought tion tive transitive verb true usage usually verb phrases verbal forms voice weak verbs word order writers
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Página 317 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery...
Página 122 - THREE little words, you often see, Are articles A, An, and The. A Noun is the name of anything, As School, or Garden, Hoop, or Swing. Adjectives tell the kind of Noun, As Great, Small, Pretty, White, or Brown. Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand, Her head, His face, Your arm, My hand. Verbs tell of something being done—- To Read, Count.
Página 200 - I AM monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Página 118 - But whatever language he knows, he knows precisely; whatever word he pronounces, he pronounces rightly; above all, he is learned in the peerage of words; knows the words of true descent and ancient blood, at a glance, from words of modern canaille; remembers all their ancestry, their intermarriages, distant relationships, and the extent to which they were admitted, and offices they held, among the national noblesse of words at any time, and in any country.
Página xv - Such reasoning concerns individuals in two aspects, first as concrete wholes and secondly as members of higher totalities or classes — species and genera. Thus, too, grammar, rich as it is in its contents, is only a formal discipline as respects the scientific, historic, or literary contents of language, and is indifferent to them. A...
Página 268 - Now this is an expression which every one uses. Grammarians (of the smaller order) protest : schoolmasters (of the lower kind) prohibit and chastise ; but English men, women, and children go on saying it, and will go on saying it as long as the English language is spoken.
Página 83 - Case denotes the relation which a noun sustains to other words in the sentence, expressed sometimes by its termination, and sometimes by its position." The number of cases given in different English textbooks varies all the way from zero to the original six. Even the recognition of the possessive as a case of nouns has been thought by some to be unnecessary. That nouns have a "possessive form...
Página 260 - In these far climes it was my lot To meet the wondrous Michael Scott ; A wizard of such dreaded fame That when, in Salamanca's cave, Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame...
Página 311 - Grammer. Nay truly, it hath that prayse, that it wanteth not Grammer: for Grammer it might have, but it needes it not; beeing so easie of it selfe, and so voyd of those cumbersome differences of Cases, Genders, Moodes, and Tenses, which I thinke was a peece of the Tower of Babilons curse, that a man should be put to schoole to learne his mother-tongue.
Página 154 - Though many of us no doubt are familiar with the terms ' strong' and ' weak' preterites, which in all our better grammars have put out of use the wholly misleading terms ' irregular' and ' regular,' I perhaps had better remind you of what the exact meaning of the terms is. A strong praeterite is one formed by an internal vowel change ; for instance, the verb ' to drive' forms the praeterite ' drove? by an internal change of the vowel ' i ' into