The English GrammarLanston Monotype Corporation Limited, 1928 - 93 pages |
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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ accent adverbs agreeth alwayes antepenultimâ Apostle Apostrophus Arsan Asyndeton bave belpe Ben Jonson booke of Fame CHAPTER IIII Chaucer common affections compounded conjugation conjunction consisteth consonant coupled declared declension derivatives diminution dipthongs distinctions divers doth double endeth ENGLISH GRAMMAR etymologie Finite follow followeth former gender Generall exceptions genitive Gerund goeth governed Gower Grecians Greeke hath the force infinite joyned kind Latines letter Lidgate Likewise maketh meere MONOTYPE CORPORATION naturall necessitie Nort noune orthographie palate participle past participle present person personall Plur plurall Polysyndeton preposition primitive Prince pronounes selfe serveth shake sharp shee singular number Sir John Cheeke Sir Tho sometimes soundeth speake speciall exception speech stead substantive sundring superlative Syllabe Syntaxe of Adjectives teeth thing thou tongue striking tyme past unto varieth the sound verbe vowellish vowells whereof wise woll word of number word without number
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Page 75 - For, whereas our breath is by nature so short, that we cannot continue without a stay to speak long together ; it was thought necessary as well for the speaker's ease, as for the plainer deliverance of the things spoken, to invent this means, whereby men pausing a pretty while, the whole speech might never the worse be understood.
Page 9 - Syllabes, it hath sometimes the sharpe accent; as in binding, minding, pining, whining, wiving, thriving, mine, thine. Or, all words of one Syllabe qualified by e. But, the flat in more, as in these, bill, bitter, giddy. little, incident, and the like In...
Page 17 - R is the Dogs letter, and hurreth in the sound ; the tongue striking the inner palate, with a trembling about the teeth. It is sounded firme in the beginning of the words, and more liquid in the middle, and ends : as in rarer, viper, and so in the Latine.
Page 1 - Wee free our Language from the opinion of Rudenesse, and Barbarisme, wherewith it is mistaken to be diseas'd; We shew the Copie of it, and Matchablenesse, with other tongues; we ripen the wits of our owne Children, and Youth sooner by it, and advance their knowledge.
Page 17 - Is a letter we might very well spare in our alphabet, if we would but use the serviceable k as he should be, and restore him to the right of reputation he had with our forefathers.
Page 40 - We have set down that, that in our judgement agreeth best with reason and good order. Which notwithstanding, if it seem to any to be too rough hewed, let him plane it out more smoothly ; and I shall not only not envy it, but, in the behalf of my country, most heartily thank him for so great a benefit ; hoping that I shall be thought sufficiently to have done my part, if, in...
Page 37 - The persons plural," he says (English Grammar, c. 17), " keep the termination of the first person singular. In former times, till about the reign of King Henry VIII., they were wont to be formed by adding en; thus, loven, sayen, complainen.
Page 67 - The futures are declared by the infinite, and the verb shall, or will; as amabo, I shall or will love. Amavero addeth thereunto have, taking the nature of two divers times; that is, of the future and the time past. I shall have loved ; or / will have loved.
Page 24 - This would aske a larger time and field, then is here given, for the examination: but since I am assigned to this Province; that it is the lot of my age, after thirty yeares conversation with men, to be elementarius Senex: I will promise, and obtaine so much of my selfe, as to give, in the heele of the booke, some spurre and incitement to that which I so reasonably seeke.