| Latin grammar - 1861 - 80 páginas
...vosmet, "Ye yourselves." OP A VERB AND ITS BOOTS. Q. What is a Verb ? and what does it express ? A. It is a word which signifies " to be," " to do," or "to suffer." Q. What is meant by the Voice of the verb ? Q. How many voices then have verbs ? A. Two; called the... | |
| Andrew Jackson Moulder - 1862 - 32 páginas
...with much of the knowledge imparted to children. The child uscd to be taught, for instance, that " a verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer " — " mood or mode is the particular form or manner in which the action, passion, or being of the... | |
| Robert Sullivan - 1863 - 272 páginas
...PREDICATE. We subjoin the usual definitions of this important part of speech : — DR. LOWTH says : " A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer." He also states, when speaking of the PARTICIPLE : " But if the essence of the verb be made to consist... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1866 - 582 páginas
...That 'sa good boy," said Mrs. Budden with all a mother's pride. " JTow, you know what a verb is ? " " A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled. Give me an apple, Ma." " I 'll give you an apple," replied the... | |
| L. V. - 1866 - 168 páginas
...Mr. Grey and told him that I wished him to go and see Ms horse." Him and Ms are pronouns. Verbs. 5. A verb is a word which signifies to be,- to do, or to suffer, that is, to have something done to ourselves ; as — to live, to dance, to be beaten. 6. You may know... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1899 - 518 páginas
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| 1868 - 604 páginas
...grammatical frailties of the barbarous man who had taught them to realize, in body equally as in mind, that "a verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer." Probably there is not a school-boy, with an average huinun nature, who would not jubilantly forego... | |
| William Rushton - 1869 - 352 páginas
...Some grammarians have founded their definitions upon the meaning of the Verb as a word. As in the old definition, ' A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; * or as in the theory wherein ' motion ' and ' rest ' are considered the distinctive characteristics... | |
| Peter Bullions - 1869 - 364 páginas
...accordingly, nearly all grammars differ in their definition of this part of speech. The old definition, that "a verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer," though unexceptionable as any, as far as it goes, is yet greatly defective in stating nothing respecting... | |
| George Washington Moon - 1869 - 310 páginas
...grammatical frailties of the barbarous man who had taught them to realize, in body equally as in mind, that " a verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer." Probably there is not a school-boy, with an average human nature, who would not jubilantly forego a... | |
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