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. 1871 Excerpt: ...from the sense of the passage: Who steals my purse steals trash. i. e. The man who--, he who--. Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. Verb. 215. A Verb is of the same number and person as its subject: Singular. Plural. 1. I speak. II. We speak. 2. Thou speakest. I 2. You speak. 3. He speaks. 3. They ...
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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. 1871 Excerpt: ...from the sense of the passage: Who steals my purse steals trash. i. e. The man who--, he who--. Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. Verb. 215. A Verb is of the same number and person as its subject: Singular. Plural. 1. I speak. II. We speak. 2. Thou speakest. I 2. You speak. 3. He speaks. 3. They speak. G2 216. A subjective infinitive, infinitive phrase, or clause, is of the third person, singular number: To err is human. To relieve the wretched was his pride. Whatever he sees annoys him. - yv 217. Two or more singular Subjects require a plural Verb: Time and tide wait for no man. But when two or more Subjects represent a collective idea, the Verb is singular: The mind and spirit remains invincible. 218. A noun of multitude is plural: The nobility of Rome are his. A collective noun is singular: The Church maintains its rights. r 219. When two or more singular Subjects are' i, connected by or or nor, the Verb is singular: When no false lustre, wealth, or power appears. Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds. Part III.--ANALYSIS. 220. To break up a sentence into its elementary parts, and to explain the relation in which those parts stand to one another, is called Analysis. It is a Greek word, meaning 'breaking up.' Sentence. 221. A Sentence is a statement of a fact, witli or without subordinate clauses: All night the booming minute-gun Had pealed along the deep. Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything. 222. A sentence may be affirmative, negative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory: Affirmative, You are writing. Negative, You are not writing. Interrogative, Are you writing 1 Imperative, Write to me. Exclamatory, How badly you write!...
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