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The Civil Service English Grammar: Being Notes on the History and Grammar of ... W. V. Yates No preview available - 2009 |
Common terms and phrases
Abstract Nouns Active Voice adjective Adverb Anglo Anglo-Saxon antecedent canst Celtic changing the root-vowel Civil Service co-ord conjugation Conjunction consonant Denoting an action Derivative Dramas Edition English language euphonic modifications expresses the relation Fivas form the past French Future Perfect Tense Future Tense Gender German Grammar Greek Hebrew History Imperative Mood Indicative Mood Infinitive Mood inflection Interrogative introduced Latin Latin root Lebahn's loved loved Modern English nominative Norman-French Note notional words object passive voice past indicative past participle Past Perfect Tense Past Tense Personal Pronouns Plur plural form Poems Poss possessive Potential Mood preceded predicate preposition present participle Present Perfect Tense Present Tense principal sentence Saxon shalt or wilt shouldst Simp simple Sing sometimes speaker spoken Subjunctive Mood substantive suffix superlative syllable taken Past Tense taken Present term expresses Thou hast Thou mayest Thou mightest Thou shalt tion vocabulary vowel wouldst
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Page 103 - I have been in the deep : in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren : in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 115 - Before the Tatler and Spectator, if the writers for the theatre are excepted, England had no masters of common life. No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect, or the impertinence of civility ; to shew when to speak, or to be silent; how to refuse, or how to comply.
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Page 50 - Singular. Plural. 1. I had loved. 1. We had loved. 2. Thou hadst loved. 2. You had loved. 3. He had loved. 3. They had loved.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The civil service English grammar Civil service series |
| Author | W. V. Yates |
| Publisher | Lockwood, 1873 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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