DIVISION OF VERBS._English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners

Verbs are of two kinds, transitive and intransitive.

A verb is transitive when the action affects an object; as, "Earthquakes

_rock_ kingdoms; thrones and palaces _are shaken_ down; and potentates,

princes, and subjects, _are buried_ in one common grave."

The nominative to a passive verb, is the _object_, but not the _agent_,

of the action.

A verb is intransitive when it has no object; as, "The waters _came_

upon me;" "I _am_ he who _was_, and _is_, and _is_ to _come_."

As an exercise on what you have been studying, I will now put to you a

few questions, all of which you ought to be able to answer before you

proceed any farther.

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