 | Lindley MURRAY - 1841 - 144 pages
...others. Poss. other's others.' Obj. other others. Nom. one ones. Poss. one's ones.' Obj. one ones. VERBS. A Verb is a word which signifies to BE, to DO, or to SUFFER ; as, " I am, I rule, I am ruled." A Verb may generally be distinguished by its making sense with any... | |
 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners - 1841 - 450 pages
...article is termed definite, and the former indefinite. It is derived from articulus, a little joint. 5. A Verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer. It is so named from " verbum," a word, from its being that essential member without which no complete... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1843 - 224 pages
...est veritas.9 Mors1 pro patria clara est. Great is truth. Death for our country is honorable. VERBS. A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer. Verbs are of three kinds, active, passive, and neuter. An active verb denotes an action which passes... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1843 - 518 pages
...verb." "That's a good boy," said Mrs. Budden with all a mother's pride. "Now, you know what a verb is?" "A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer; as, lam — I rule — I am ruled. Give me an apple , Ma." "I'll give you an apple," replied the man... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1843 - 50 pages
...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 suffer." He also states, when speaking of the PARTICIPLE, " But if the essence of the verb be made... | |
 | 1844 - 688 pages
...signifies an action. It is a meaning, too, which you will never forget. When we learn in the book that " a verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer," we seldom understand it ; and when, it is explained to us, we are apt to forget it. But you will now... | |
 | 822 pages
...almost as soon as we begin to live. When I was a lad at school I was taught to recite the words, " a verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer." But arrived at the years of maturity, and turned into the great world-school where life's sterner lessons... | |
 | James Brown (Grammarian) - 1845 - 658 pages
...in the definition of a verb. In the definition of the verb we find the word, signify, employed : " A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to svfer." Do any of these auxiliaries signify to be, to do, or to suffer 1 No one of them signifies any... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Allen Fisk - 1846 - 180 pages
...using the pronoun, — we say, ' When Ctesar had conquered Gaul, lie fought against Ids country.' 5. A Verb is a word, which signifies, To Be, To Do, or To Suffer ; as, I am, 1 rule, 1 am ruled ; He sleeps, she walks, they are beaten.'' Verb comes from the Latin... | |
 | James Brown (of Philadelphia.) - 1847 - 314 pages
...frequent repetition of the same word; as, The man is happy; he is benevolent; he is useful. 5. VERB. A Verb is a word which signifies to BE, to DO, or to SUFFEB ; as, I am; I rule; I am ruled. 6. ADVERB. An Adverb is a part of speech joined to a verb, an... | |
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A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled. 
