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The Use of Words, the Accidence of Grammar as It Explains the Parts of Speech

The Use of Words, the Accidence of Grammar as It Explains the Parts of Speech

Kinnear, Georgina

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General World History

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ISBN10: 0217068456
ISBN13: 9780217068451
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.04 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... true Verbs, because they signify actions, and the effect of action; and because they exercise the movements of Transitive Verbs, and govern an Accusative Case. 8. Must and Ought have no Present Tense, nevertheless they are used as Present, to fulfil the significance of that Tense when evidently the present moment is the time of speaking. He must consent, He ought to refuse. The Past Tenses are, He must have consented, He ought to have refused, and the Accusative governed is the Infinite of have defined by a Past Participle. The Verb to owe may represent the origin of ought. 9. There are not in English, as in German, Composite Verbs formed by joining a separable Preposition to the Verb; but the sense of the Verb may be modified by a Preposition; as, to swear; to forswear, to take; to undertake, to look; to look for, i.e. to seek. SECTION VII LESSON III THE CONJUGATION OF VERBS I The word Conjugation is used to denote the variation of forms in a Verb, by which its grammatical attributes are marked. As Gender, Number, Person, Case are expressed in Nouns by inflexion, or by the use of Particles, so must Voice, Mood, and Tense be marked in Verbs. The changes in Nouns are comparatively few, and the Declension of a Noun is a short and simple process, but the Verb includes more parts and offices than the Noun, and these effect many changes when all are duly and methodically arranged, in what is called the Conjugation of the Verb. It requires a more serious effort to learn and write out the whole Conjugation than to make an orderly summary of the Declensions of Nouns. II 1. The Substantive Verb is derived from more than one root, and it does not take all the inflexions of Tense of other Verbs; in Conjugation, therefore, it stands alone. ...

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