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  1.  Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems / Society for Pure English
    used it as a verb and said that he had been _ennuied_. Why not therefore frankly and boldly pronounce ... into an English verb; and yet I have heard the verb pronounced with the nasal _n_ of the original French  details...
  2.  Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. / Balch, William Stevens, 1806-1887
    .--Too numerous.--Derived from nouns.--Nouns and verbs made from adjectives.--Foreign adjectives.--A general list.--Difficult to be understood.--An example.--Often superfluous.--Derived from verbs.--Participles.--Some prepositions ...  details...
  3.  How to Speak and Write Correctly / Devlin, Joseph
    , Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection. Of these, the Noun is the most important ... _ is setting. _Case_ is the relation one noun bears to another or to a verb or to a preposition  details...
  4.  English Grammar in Familiar Lectures / Kirkham, Samuel
    . The noun and verb, as being the most important parts of speech, are first explained, and afterwards ... . Kirkham furnishes a _clew_ by which the youthful mind is guided through the intricate labyrinth of verbs  details...
  5.  Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. / Smith, Buckingham
    . Those which may be called _verbal_, from their origin in verbs, are much used: hi�sguadauh, painting, or writing ... from the future active: thus, the verb m�tecan, I chop, having m�tetze in the future, receives siven in lieu  details...
  6.  An English Grammar /
    PRONOUNS ADJECTIVES ARTICLES VERBS AND VERBALS Verbs Verbals How to Parse Verbs ... PART III. _SYNTAX_. INTRODUCTORY NOUNS PRONOUNS ADJECTIVES ARTICLES VERBS INDIRECT  details...
  7.  The Grammar of English Grammars / Brown, Goold, 1791-1857
    of Pronouns Examples for Parsing, Praxis V Errors concerning Pronouns Chapter VI. Of Verbs Classes of Verbs Modifications of Verbs Moods Tenses Persons and Numbers ...  details...
  8.  Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking / Bechtel, John Hendricks, 1841-
    OF VERB WITH SUBJECT, . . 198 _________________________________________________________________ 3 ... negro. Day before yesterday, use the day before yesterday. Debut. Decease, as a verb. Democracy, applied  details...
  9.  On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 / Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
    of combinations, as where particular words are used to denote tense in the verb; thus, _did_ may be used in combination with a verb to denote past time until it is worn down to the sound of _d_. The same wear occurs ...  details...
  10.  Latin prose composition; with exercises on Caesar, Livy and Cicero. / Fletcher, John, 1850-
    (Continued) 5 4. Pronoun of Third Person with Infinitive Verbs of Hoping and Promising 6 5 ... . Consecutive Clauses f^u^^J^- J 4 9. Ut-Clauses with Verbs of Asking 16 10. Verbs of Fearing. Modal Verbs  details...

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