"Shall" and "Will": Or, Two Chapters on Future Auxiliary Verbs: to which are Added, 1. An Essay on Certain Affirmative and Negative Particles in the English Language. 2. An Essay on the Provincial Word "songle". |
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... Rules of English idiom in categorical sentences Principle on which these rules are founded- Hypothetical , contingent , and interrogative sentences Growth of the English idiom - Page 5 CHAPTER II . Future auxiliaries in other languages ...
... Rules of English idiom in categorical sentences Principle on which these rules are founded- Hypothetical , contingent , and interrogative sentences Growth of the English idiom - Page 5 CHAPTER II . Future auxiliaries in other languages ...
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... rule , ' " thou art ruled , ' he is ruled . ' ” Such a future tense offers , no doubt , what Dr. Latham calls " a " logical , not an etymological sequence ; " but if it be the business of Grammar to inform us how a verb is conjugated ...
... rule , ' " thou art ruled , ' he is ruled . ' ” Such a future tense offers , no doubt , what Dr. Latham calls " a " logical , not an etymological sequence ; " but if it be the business of Grammar to inform us how a verb is conjugated ...
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... rule analogous to that which guides us in the employment of their presents . When the auxiliaries " should " and " would " are applied for the purpose of expressing a subjunctive mood , they are , in fact , only contingent or hypo ...
... rule analogous to that which guides us in the employment of their presents . When the auxiliaries " should " and " would " are applied for the purpose of expressing a subjunctive mood , they are , in fact , only contingent or hypo ...
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... rule : " Compel me to " retire and I shall be fallen indeed ; I would feel " myself blighted in the eyes of all my acquaintance ; ' I would never more lift up my face in society ; I " would bury myself in the oblivion of shame and ...
... rule : " Compel me to " retire and I shall be fallen indeed ; I would feel " myself blighted in the eyes of all my acquaintance ; ' I would never more lift up my face in society ; I " would bury myself in the oblivion of shame and ...
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... rule in the following sentence of his Observations on a late State of the Nation , ' when speaking of the improbable supposition that George Grenville would - 14 " Shall " might also express the obligation ; and numerous instances of ...
... rule in the following sentence of his Observations on a late State of the Nation , ' when speaking of the improbable supposition that George Grenville would - 14 " Shall " might also express the obligation ; and numerous instances of ...
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Adelung affirmative Anglo-Saxon answer appears Archdeacon Hare auxiliary verb Cæsar Compare connected connexion Coriolanus derived Deutsche Gramm dialects Dictionary duty employed English English Language Essays express the future fact Fcap Fifth Edition forms Fourth Edition French future auxiliary future tense GEORGE Gothic Grammar Greek Grimm Herodotus History of England idiom Illustrations imply inflection instances intention interrogative JOHN Journal king LADY Latin Letters Lord means Memoir Middle High German modern negative Notes notion observed Old High German original Oscan Outlaw Murray participle particle Philolog Plates Portrait Post 8vo præterite present principle probably pronoun proper auxiliary pure future question remarkable Roman Romance languages Royal 8vo Second Edition sense sentence Sermons sero simple future speaker speaking speech supposed Teutonic Third Edition third person tion to-morrow translated Ulfilas usage verb-substantive volition Vols wergeld whilst Woodcuts WORD SONGLE
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