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Image 2 of English grammar, (Ffc^jmxn L A 4^ Class. Book -A. •pew Ms?, PRKsk^lbBY- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 3 of English grammar, ENGLISH GRAMMAR, ADAPTED TO THE ***_ h~ DIFFERENT CLASSES OF LEARNEH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING KULKifAND OBSERVATIONS FOR ASSI3TING THE MORE ADVANCED STUDENTS TO WR^TE WITH PERSPICUITY AND ACCURACY, They who are learning…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 5 of English grammar, INTRODUCTION. WHEN the number and variety of English Grammars already published, and the ability with which some of them are written, are considered, little can be expected from a new compilation,, besides…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 6 of English grammar, 4 INTRODUCTION. be conducive to that gradual and regular procedure, which is so favourable to the business of instruction. The more important rules, definitions, and observations, and which are therefore the most…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 7 of English grammar, INTRODUCTION.- i to pay peculiar attention to this part of the subject and though the instances of false grammar, under the rules of Syntax, are numerous, it is hoped they will not…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 8 of English grammar, 5 INTRODUCTION signs of oar ideas,. and the medium by which we perceive the sentiments -of others; and communicate our own and as signs exhibit the things which they are i a…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 9 of English grammar, INTR€DUCTaC!T; might have an improper effect on -the minds of youth but also to introduce, on many occasions, such as have a mora! and religious tendency. Hi3 attention to objects of so…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 10 of English grammar, INTRODUCTION divisions, arrangements, definitions, or rules, against whicfr critical ingenuity cannot devise plausible objections. The subject is attended with so much intricacy, and ad- raits of views so various, that it was…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 11 of English grammar, CONTENTS- PART L- Orthography* ehap. 1. Of the letters Page, Sect. 1. Of the nature of the letters, and of a perfect alphabet. 13 2, General observations on the sounds of the…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 12 of English grammar, ft- CONTENTS* Page,. Sect. 5. Of the tenses. 75 6. The conjugation of the auxiliary verbs to have and lo be. .81 7. The auxiliary verbs conjugated in their simple form with…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 13 of English grammar, CONTENTS. H Page. OF the position of adverbs. 1 73 Of two negatives. 176 Of the syntax of prepositions .177 Of the syntax of conjunctions. Of conjunctions connecting the same moods, tenses,…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 14 of English grammar, 12 CONTENTS, PART II. Vf perspicuity and accuracy of expression^ with respect to the construction of sentences. Chap, 1. Of the clearness of a sentence. 257 Chap. 2. Of the unity of…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 15 of English grammar, ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ENGLISH Grammar is the art of speaking and writing the English language with propri- ety. It is divided into four parts, viz. orthogra- phy, ETYMOLOGY, SYNTAX, and FROSODY. This division…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 16 of English grammar, 34 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. The following is a list of the Roman and Italic charac- ters. Ror nan. Italic Name. Cap. Small. Cap. Small. A a A a au B b B b…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 17 of English grammar, ORTHOGRAPHY. 15 acter be the representative of no other sound. But this is far from being the state of the English alphabet. It has more original sounds than distinct significant letters and…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 18 of English grammar, ENGLISH GRAMMAR. on of in bull, the same as o in move, which is the opinion some grammarians then there are but ten original vowel sounds in the English language. The following…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 19 of English grammar, ORTHOGRAPHY. 17 unnecessary, because its sound is the same with /r, as in opaque. X is compounded of gs, as in example or of ks y as in expect. From the preceding…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 20 of English grammar, 18 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. i in hymn, fly, -crystal, c. See the letters W and Y, pages 28 and 29* We present the following y more exact and philoso- phical definitions of a…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 21 of English grammar, ORTHOGRAPHY. 19 the aid of a vowel. We may further observe, that even the names of the consonants, as they are pronounced iu0 reciting the alphabet, require the help of vowels to…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 22 of English grammar, 20 X CLl SH GkAMAUR. A diphthong is the union of two vowels, pronounced by a simple impulse of the voice i as ea in beat, ou in sound, A triphthong is…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 23 of English grammar, ORTHOGRAPHY. 21 aequator, c. but others have laid it aside, and write enigma, Cesar, Eneas. c. The diphthong ai has exactly the long slender sound of a, as in pail, tail, c.…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 24 of English grammar, 22 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Ch in arch, before a vowel, sounds like k as iu arcfe- angel, archives. Archipelago; except in arched, archery, archer, and arch-enemy but before a consonant it always sounds…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 25 of English grammar, ORTHOGRAPHY. 23 Ett is always sounded like long u or eiv as in feud, deuce. Ew is almost always pronounced like long u as in few, new. dew, Ey, when the accent…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 26 of English grammar, 24 ENGLISH GRAMMAK. H final, preceded by a vowel, is always silent as, ah hah! oh! fol -arali, Wessiah. From the raininess of the sound of this letter, in many words, cciul…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 27 of English grammar, •uthoGraphy. 25 L L Jias always ft soft liquid sound as in love, billow, quarrel. It is sometimes mate as in half, talk, psalm. The custom is to double the I at…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 28 of English grammar, 26 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. moon, soon, food. It has a shorter sound in wool, good, foot, and a few others. In blood and flood it sounds like short u. Door and floor should…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 29 of English grammar, ORTHOGRAPHY. 27 It is always sharp at the beginning of words. At the end of Words it takes the soft sound as, his, was, trees, eye3 except in the words, this, thus,…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 30 of English grammar, 2* ENGLISH GRAMMAR. which are pronounced bizzy, bizness, berry, and berrfotl. A is now often used before words beginning with u long, and an always before those that begin with u short;…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 31 of English grammar, ORTHOGRAPHT. 29 When w is a vowel, and is distinguished in Hie pronun- ciation, it ha3 exactly the same sound as u would have in the same situation as, draw, crew, view,…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 32 of English grammar, 30 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. scarcely any thing which more distinguishes a person of a poor education, from a person of a good one, than the pronunciation of the unaccented vowels. When vowels are…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 33 of English grammar, fcftTHOGRAPHY. SI same tone, and, consequently, that to every change of tone a correspondent change of diameter is necessary we must be filled with admiration at the mechanism of these parts, and…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 34 of English grammar, 32 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. perceived, unless it be accompanied by an opening of the mouth, that is, by a vowel. By making the experiment with attention, the student wijl perceive that each of…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 35 of English grammar, ORTHOGRAPHY. 33 refinement and subtility of matter, as are not only proper to sharpen the understandings of young persons, b\i suffi- cient to give exercise for the most profound knowledge and erudition.…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 36 of English grammar, 34 f ENGLISH GRAMMAR. always belongs to that syllable as, dis-tract, dis-prove^ dis-train. 4. When three or four consonants, which are not proper to begin a syllable, meet between two vowels, sueh…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 37 of English grammar, ORTHOGRAPHY, 35 simplicity as, manful, goodness, content- ment, Yorkshire.* There are many English words which, (hough com- pounds in other languages, are to us primitives thus, circumspect, circumvent, circumstance, delude, concave, complicate,…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 38 of English grammar, 86 RNGLISI* GRAMMAB. HULE IV. Words ending with y, preceded by a consonant, upon assuming an addition?/! syllable beginning with a conso- nant, commonly change y into i; as, happy, happily, happiness.…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 39 of English grammar, qAthogiuphy. Yl When hig or ish is added to words ending with silent c, the is almost universally omitted as, place, placing; lodge, lodging slave, slavish prude, prudish. RUT, IS XI. Words…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
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Image 40 of English grammar, 3S PART II. ETYMOLOGY. CHAPTER I. v£ General View of the Parts of Speech The second part of grammar is etymology* which treats of the different sorts of words, their various modifications^and…- Contributor: Murray, Lindley
- Date: 1819