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... PRETERIT tense ( preterit is a Latin word for ' gone by , past ' ) . The use of the different tenses of the verb does not depend , like that of the different numbers and persons , on the character of any other word with which the verb ...
... PRETERIT tense ( preterit is a Latin word for ' gone by , past ' ) . The use of the different tenses of the verb does not depend , like that of the different numbers and persons , on the character of any other word with which the verb ...
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... preterit ran , from lead comes led , and from send comes sent ; from much come the comparative and superlative more and most ; and so on . 84. In the third place , in inflecting some words we both add something and alter the sound of ...
... preterit ran , from lead comes led , and from send comes sent ; from much come the comparative and superlative more and most ; and so on . 84. In the third place , in inflecting some words we both add something and alter the sound of ...
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... PRETERIT And we have in like manner , as corresponding present and preterit , TENSE . I lead and I led ; I give I hold and and I held ; I gave . These two are the only tenses distinguished by real inflection in our verb . 233. Mode ...
... PRETERIT And we have in like manner , as corresponding present and preterit , TENSE . I lead and I led ; I give I hold and and I held ; I gave . These two are the only tenses distinguished by real inflection in our verb . 233. Mode ...
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... preterit subjunctive different from the indicative : thus , I was , if I were ; and even in the present tense , a difference , except in the same verb be , is found only in the second and third persons singular : thus , if thou love ...
... preterit subjunctive different from the indicative : thus , I was , if I were ; and even in the present tense , a difference , except in the same verb be , is found only in the second and third persons singular : thus , if thou love ...
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... preterit tense and the past participle . And , according as they follow the one or the other of these ways , English verbs are divided into two great classes , which are called CONJUGATIONS , because unlike one another in their mode of ...
... preterit tense and the past participle . And , according as they follow the one or the other of these ways , English verbs are divided into two great classes , which are called CONJUGATIONS , because unlike one another in their mode of ...
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Page 203 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Page 203 - Oh, but for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!
Page 186 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 184 - The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand...
Page 206 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 184 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song...
Page 210 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition?