Book/Printed Material A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and academies.
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Image 1 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and …- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 2 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … Qass TE/// Book Gf 77 IKO Copyz- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 3 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and …- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 4 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and …- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 5 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … GRAMMAR ENGLISH LANGUAGE, ADAPTED TO n at Steals Rift ^xtitemw. By SAMUEL S. GKEENE, A.M. AUTHOR OF INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF GRAMMAR, ANALYSIS OP SENTENCES, ETC., ETC. PHILADELPHIA: H. COWPERTHWAIT CO.…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 6 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … YLuu Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by SAMUEL S. GREENE, in the Clerk s Office of the District Court of Rhode L-land. HEARS DCSSNBERY, ELECTROTTPERS. SMITH PETERS,…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 7 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … f*-f PREFACE. A T m tW6lve yearS since the first Publication of A al y^ of Sentences. During this period the work has passed through many editions, and has received the most…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 8 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … placed the highest value upon the oral exercises, it has been thought best to divide the work into two books the first contain- ing an introductory course of Oral Lessons, with enough…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 9 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … will be found in the different parts of the book, accompanied with Exercises for practice. In cases where the learner is in danger of adopting ungranimatical constructions, he is furnished with the…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 10 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … office. Here, again, the idea determines the element, while the classification depends upon some peculiarity of the element itself. Again, an element of the sentence may itself contain elements which may all…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 11 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … CONTENTS. SECTION PAGE 1. Definitions and Divisions 13 ORTHOGRAPHY. 2. Definition .13 ELEMENTARY SOUNDS. 3. Number and Classes 14 4. Classes of Vocals 14 5. Classes of Subvocals and Aspirates .14 6.…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 12 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … Vlll CONTENTS. section ETYMOLOGY. PAGE 32. Definitions 31 33. Classes of Words 31 PARTS OF SPEECH. 34. Parts of Speech Defined 32 NOUNS. 35. Definition and Distinctions 33 36. Proper and Common…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 13 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … CONTENTS. IX SECTION PAGE VERBS. SO. Definitions and Distinctions 71 81. Exercise 72 82. Verbs classified by tbeir Use 73 83. Exercise .74 84. Verbs classified by their Form .75 85. Exercise…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 14 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … X CONTENTS. SECTION PAGE 130. Impersonal Verbs .123 131. Exercise 123 ADVERBS. 132. Definition 126 133. Exercise 126 134. Classes of Adverbs 127 135. Conjunctive Adverbs 127 136. Exercise 128 137. Comparison…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 15 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … CONTENTS. SECTION 175. Varieties of the Elements 176. Exercise 177. Elements of Complex Sentences 178. Varieties of Complex Sentences 179. Elements of Compound Sentences 180. Varieties of Compound Sentences 181. Exercise 182.…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 16 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … Xil CONTENTS. SECTION p AGE 223. Exercise 223 224. The Object of the Preposition 224 225. Exercise 225 226. Subordinate Connectives 225 227. Exercise 226 228. The Infinitive .227 229. Exercise 229…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 17 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 1. Definitions and Divisions. 1. English Grammar treats of the principles and usages of the English language it teaches us to speak and write it cor- rectly. 2. It relates;…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 18 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … 14 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ELEMENTARY SOUNDS. 3. dumber and Classes. 1. An elementary sound is the simplest sound of the language as, the sound of a, e b or k. 2. The English…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 19 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ORTHOGRAPIIY LETTERS. 15 5. Classes of Subvocais and Aspirates. 1. The subvocais and aspirates are divided in a similar man- ner, into continuous and explosive. 2. The continuous are capable of prolongation.…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 20 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … 16 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. which they are produced. Thus, the sound of m most readily unite.? with the sound of p, as in hemp, lump the sound of n unites most readily with…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 21 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ORTHOGRAPHY LETTERS. 17 3. In the preceding examples tell which of the vocals are loxg and which short tell which of the subvocals and aspirates are continuous and which explosive. Select three…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 22 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … 18 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 5. Those letters which represent vocals are called vowels. They are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. 6. W and Y are consonants when they…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 23 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ORTHOGRAPHY LETTERS. 19 10. Exercise. 1. Tell which letters are vowels, and which are consonants, in the following words Name, war, come, peace, tree, fish, good, live, old, sad, young, wine, said,…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 24 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … 20 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. single letter as, i a e (a in far, and e in me) u in union yu o in one v:u. 3. Sometimes a combination of letters represents a…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 25 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ORTHOGRAPHY SYLLABLES. 21 its correlative t, because it is made to unite with a preceding aspirate. In the present state of the language, this rule is quite uniform, as may be seen…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 26 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … 22 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. (b.) Of a vowel with one or more consonants prefixed; as, ia-sis, bri-cr, three, phthisis. (c.) Of a vowel with one or more consonants affixed; as, in, elf, inter-evfs,…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 27 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ORTHOGRAPHY SYLLABLES. 23 Remark. Written words are used to represent both sounds and ideas. As the representatives of sounds, they are classified according to the number of syllables they contain. 2. A…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 28 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … 24 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 4. Write the following tvords upon your slate, and divide them into syllables, marking the accented syllable: Conscience, detecting, inability, indubitable, commotion, laborious, relate, detestation, infesting, exemplary. Model. Con…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 29 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … SPELLING PRIMITIVES, DERIVATIVES. ZO it may be treated of under tlie three classes of words, primitive, derivative, and compound. PRIMITIVE WORDS. 83. Pwiiles for Primitives. Note. The spelling of primitive words should…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 30 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ZU ENGLISH GRAMMAR. DERIVATIVE WORDS— SUFFIXES. 25. Rules for applying Suffixes. 1. That part of a derivative word which is placed after the radical is called a suffix as, faith-/**/, end-less. Note.…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 31 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ORTHOGRAPHY DERIVATIVES. 27 (c.) Words ending in II usually drop one I on taking an additional syllable beginning with a consonant; as, skill-/«Z, skilful. (d.) Sometimes when the final e is preceded…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 32 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … 28 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 4. Analyze incomplete, goodness, hopeful, retrograde. MODEL FOR ANALYSIS. Impenitent is a derivative word. (Why Penitent is the radical part, and signifies repenting. Im is the prefix (in, Rule…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 33 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ORTHOGRAPHY RULES FOR CAPITALS. 29 .every independent expression, or phrase, should begin with a capi- tal as, Evil communications corrupt good manners. The words of the prophet. (a.) When the dependent parts…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 34 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … 30 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 9. Euls IX. The first word of a direct quotation, so intro- duced as to form a sentence of itself, should begin with a capital as He saith unto…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 35 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ETYMOLOGY CLASSES OF WORDS. ol heard; as, feast, poorly; otherwise they separate into two syllables; as, li-on, pa-erile, cooperate. (6.) When the two vowels are the same, the separation is often indicated…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 36 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … 32 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 33. Classes of Words. 1. According to their meaning and use, all words are divided into eight classes, called Parts of Speech. 2. All words are divided according to…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 37 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ETYMOLOGY PARTS OF SPEECH NOUN. 66 verbum, the word, i. e., the important word; it embraces a large class of words. The different uses of the verb, as well as those of…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 38 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … 34 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. words, so called, because the one denotes a substance, or an object, and the other an attribute. 4. It will be seen, moreover, that an attribute, when regarded as…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 39 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … ETYMOLOGY NOUNS PROPERTIES. 35 apart from the object to which it belongs; as, goodness, virtue, wisdom, movement. 9. A verbal noun is a participle used as a noun as, He was convicted…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
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Image 40 of A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and … 36 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 33. Properties of Nouns. To nouns belong the properties of person, number, (jender, and case. -39. Person of Uouns. 1. Person is that property of a noun or pronoun…- Contributor: Greene, Samuel Stillman
- Date: 1860
About this Item
Title
- A grammar of the English language, adapted to the use of schools and academies.
Names
- Greene, Samuel Stillman, 1810-1883. [from old catalog]
Created / Published
- Philadelphia, H. Cowperthwait & co., 1860.
Headings
- - English language--Grammar
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- xii, [13]-264 p. 19 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- PE1111 .G77 1860
Library of Congress Control Number
- 40018554
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