An English Grammar: For the Use of High School, Academy, and College ClassesAmerican book Company, 1895 - 349 страници |
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... Sometimes the -ess has been added to a word already feminine by the ending -ster ; as seam - str- ess , song - str - ess . The ending -ster had then lost its force as a feminine suffix ; it has none now in the words huckster , gamester ...
... Sometimes the -ess has been added to a word already feminine by the ending -ster ; as seam - str- ess , song - str - ess . The ending -ster had then lost its force as a feminine suffix ; it has none now in the words huckster , gamester ...
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... Sometimes , however , a few of these words have the construction of singular nouns . Notice the following : - They cannot get on without each other any more than one blade of a scissors can cut without the other . - J. L. LAUGHLIN . A ...
... Sometimes , however , a few of these words have the construction of singular nouns . Notice the following : - They cannot get on without each other any more than one blade of a scissors can cut without the other . - J. L. LAUGHLIN . A ...
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... , the word toward which the preposition points , and which it joins to another word : " He must have a long spoon that would eat with the devil . " The preposition sometimes takes the possessive case of a noun 48 THE PARTS OF SPEECH .
... , the word toward which the preposition points , and which it joins to another word : " He must have a long spoon that would eat with the devil . " The preposition sometimes takes the possessive case of a noun 48 THE PARTS OF SPEECH .
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... sometimes takes the possessive case of a noun , as will be seen in Sec . 68 . ( 6 ) In apposition with another objective : " The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder , a patriarch of the village , and ...
... sometimes takes the possessive case of a noun , as will be seen in Sec . 68 . ( 6 ) In apposition with another objective : " The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder , a patriarch of the village , and ...
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... the ending -es ; in Middle English still more words took this end- ing : for example , in Chaucer , " From every schires Origin of the with its possessive apostrophe . A false theory . Use of the apostrophe . Sometimes NOUNS . 51.
... the ending -es ; in Middle English still more words took this end- ing : for example , in Chaucer , " From every schires Origin of the with its possessive apostrophe . A false theory . Use of the apostrophe . Sometimes NOUNS . 51.
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abstract nouns ADDISON adverbs antecedent apposition belong Bring up sentences BULWER BURKE BYRON called CARLYLE choose chosen Coleridge common comparative complement compound connection coördinate dependent clauses DICKENS direct object EMERSON equivalent example Exercise express action feminine Find sentences following sentences gender gerund GOLDSMITH HAWTHORNE hence Imperative Mood indefinite relatives Indicative Mood infinitive inflected interrogative intransitive IRVING kind KINGSLEY language literary English MACAULAY masculine meaning Middle English modify nature neuter nominative Old English parsing past participle past tense perfect definite person or thing personal pronouns plural possessive predicate preposition Present Tense QUINCEY refer RELATIVE PRONOUNS RUSKIN SCOTT sentences containing SHAKESPEARE simple sentence singular sometimes speak spoken English stand Subjunctive Mood subordinate conjunctions superlative syntax tell tences THACKERAY thee third person thou thought tion tive transitive verb usage usually verbal weak verb word groups WORDSWORTH
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