Elements of grammar; with practical exercises in the correct use of language: containing also analysis and synthesis of sentences, and a complete system of diagrams - Softcover
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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. 1884 Excerpt: ...the forms of the past tense and past participle are the same; but in the application of this rule to irregular verbs, great care must be observed. See 109, also list of irregular verbs in Appendix. 2. Care should be taken to discriminate in words similar in sound, but of different form or meaning; as, set, sit; lie, lay; fly, flee, flow, etc. Avoid such barbarisms as choosed for chose or chosen; bust for burst; loosed for lost; drownded for drowned; loss for lose; growed for grew; knowed for knew; seed for saw; staled for stole; teached for taught, and the like. See §227, Lesson 71. Exercise 129.--Correct the errors in the use of the past tense and past participle in the following sentences, and write the sentences as corrected: 1. T should have went if you had asked me. 2. I wish I had chose a different seat. 3. A certain man become rich and soon begun to be weary of having nothing to do. 4. My book was stole and my Blate is broke. 5. Who has took my books out of my desk. 6. He has rose from a tow-boy to the presidency. 7. The French language is spoke in every part of Europe. 8. I have wrote for the books, but they have not came. 9. The bird has flew out of its cage and it will be eat by the cat. 10. The story is wrote by a lady and was began in Appleton's Journal. 11. I seen him when he come home yesterday. 12. Has any one saw the book my father has gave me! 13. The lady sung very sweetly, and she has sang that song many times before. Exercise 130.--Wiite ten sentences, each containing a different verb in the past tense; ten containing these verbs in one of the compound tenses with the auxiliary have; ten with the auxiliaries of the verb be; using the list oi verbs, Exercise 109. LESSON LXX1, LAY AND LIE--SET AND SIT. 227. Several verbs similar in so...
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