Note 7 — Section 19. HOW DID CUVIER[1] BECOME A NATURALIST?
Reading edition
The Supine is used to express purpose, and must be employed whenever the English ‘to’ is used in the meaning of ‘in order to’, or ‘for the purpose of’; clauses of this sort are generally introduced by the conjunction ‘um’; as—
Return to Section 19. HOW DID CUVIER[1] BECOME A NATURALIST?Return to Section 23. SPRING-BLOSSOMS[1].Return to Section 31. FORMATION OF A CORAL-ISLAND. II.Return to Section 35. SIR[1] WILLIAM HERSCHEL.Return to Section 58. THE BEQUEST. II.Return to Section 73. PETER THE GREAT AND THE MONK.Return to Section 85. THE LONDON DOCKS. I.Return to Section 99. THE LOST CHILD FOUND. II.Return to Section 103. THE DRAMA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848. III.Return to Section 106. THE DRAMA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848. VI.Return to Section 120. DO GOOD IN YOUR OWN SPHERE OF ACTION. II.Return to Section 167. RUSSIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS IN BANISHMENT. III.Return to Section 169. Tahiti[1]. I.Return to Section 217. THE BURNING OF MOSCOW. (Comp. S. 156, N. 1.) I.Return to INDEX TO THE GRAMMATICAL RULES AND IDIOMATIC RENDERINGS.Return to INDEX TO THE GRAMMATICAL RULES AND IDIOMATIC RENDERINGS.