The beginners' drill-book of English grammarRivingtons, 1878 - 113 pages |
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... Subjunctive Mood 56 PART IV . THE ALPHABET . Chapter I. Analysis of English Speech - sounds II . Insufficiency of the English Alphabet APPENDIX . 59 59 61 Examples of Analysis and Parsing . Exercises . Examples of Additional Exercises ...
... Subjunctive Mood 56 PART IV . THE ALPHABET . Chapter I. Analysis of English Speech - sounds II . Insufficiency of the English Alphabet APPENDIX . 59 59 61 Examples of Analysis and Parsing . Exercises . Examples of Additional Exercises ...
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... Subjunctive Mood makes a statement not of fact , but a hypothetical statement , or a statement under supposition . The Imperative Mood gives command or makes entreaty . All these have relations of time , number , person ; but the ...
... Subjunctive Mood makes a statement not of fact , but a hypothetical statement , or a statement under supposition . The Imperative Mood gives command or makes entreaty . All these have relations of time , number , person ; but the ...
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... subjunctive mood . do with its forms is used in asking questions and in emphatic assertions . have with its forms is used in the perfect tenses . shall and will with their forms are used in the future tenses . should , would , may ...
... subjunctive mood . do with its forms is used in asking questions and in emphatic assertions . have with its forms is used in the perfect tenses . shall and will with their forms are used in the future tenses . should , would , may ...
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... SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD . 3. ( If they ) have. Imperfect . PRESENT TENSE . Singular . 1. ( 1 ) am 2. ( thou ) art 3. ( he ) is Plural . 1. ( we ) are 2. ( you ) are 3. ( they ) are PAST TENSE . Singular . 1. ( I ) was 2. ( thou ) wast 3. ( he ) ...
... SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD . 3. ( If they ) have. Imperfect . PRESENT TENSE . Singular . 1. ( 1 ) am 2. ( thou ) art 3. ( he ) is Plural . 1. ( we ) are 2. ( you ) are 3. ( they ) are PAST TENSE . Singular . 1. ( I ) was 2. ( thou ) wast 3. ( he ) ...
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James Burton (schoolmaster.) 2. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD . 3. ( If they ) have 3. have had 3. IMPERATIVE MOOD . II . INFINITE FORMS . 1. VERBAL NOUNS . 2. VERBAL ADJECTIVES . 3. VERBAL ADVERBS . FUTURE TENSE . PAST TENSE . PRESENT TENSE ...
James Burton (schoolmaster.) 2. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD . 3. ( If they ) have 3. have had 3. IMPERATIVE MOOD . II . INFINITE FORMS . 1. VERBAL NOUNS . 2. VERBAL ADJECTIVES . 3. VERBAL ADVERBS . FUTURE TENSE . PAST TENSE . PRESENT TENSE ...
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adjectives adverbs Balliol College Birds Cæsar called Cambridge College compound conjunctions Copulative crow Crown 8vo doth English express False Syntax father flies flowers forms FRANCIS STORR gender Gerunds green grow hadst hast Head-Master heard horse IMPERATIVE MOOD IMPERFECT INDICATIVE MOOD Infinitive INFLEXION intransitive island lies nine king Largo Bay live Marlborough College Merchant Taylors morn night nominative noun or pronoun o'er OBJECT Oxford participle passive voice PAST TENSE person PREDICATE preposition PRESENT TENSE qualifying remain dunces river rose Rugby School Rule seen PERFECT seen Plu seen Plural seen Singular Shakspere ship simple sentences sing sleep Small 8vo snow sorrow sounds speak stand stood SUBJECT subjunctive mood sword Tell thee thou toiled transitive verbs tree VERB AND COMPLEMENT verb trans VERBAL NOUNS walk waves wilt wind words writing ОВЈЕСТ
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