Word: av
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...Runs. Av. Runs...
...Strikes. Base. Av. Base. J.B. Av...
...Games. Outs. Av. Outs. Runs. Av. Runs...
Marched common and av'nue and shtrate...
...idea and of expression. The student was not asked to rack his brains and search the grammar for the peculiar technical reason for an uncommon use of a subjunctive, or to give a long dissertation on the ground of a Grecian author's choice of the infinitive with av instead of the optative. It was supposed that the average student had sufficient general knowledge of grammatical principles, after four or five years of careful preparation, to dispense with comments and questions on the syntax of ordinary sentences; and was able, if not invariably to have every grammatical term...