The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.
uniformity between the three cases.”—­Nutting’s Gram., p. 98.  “When a disjunctive occurs between two or more Infinitive Modes, or clauses, the verb must be singular.”—­ Jaudon’s Gram., p. 95.  “Several nouns or pronouns together in the same case, not united by and, require a comma between each.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 115.  “The difference between the several vowels is produced by opening the mouth differently, and placing the tongue in a different manner for each.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 2.  “Thus feet composed of syllables, being pronounced with a sensible interval between each, make a more lively impression than can be made by a continued sound.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 32.  “The superlative degree implies a comparison between three or more.”—­Smith’s Productive Gram., p. 51.  “They are used to mark a distinction between several objects.”—­Levizac’s Gram., p. 85.

UNDER NOTE III.—­OMISSION OF PREPOSITIONS.

“This would have been less worthy notice.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 197.  “But I passed it, as a thing unworthy my notice.”—­Werter.  “Which, in compliment to me, perhaps, you may, one day, think worthy your attention.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 81.  “To think this small present worthy an introduction to the young ladies of your very elegant establishment.”—­ Ib., p. iv.  “There are but a few miles portage.”—­Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, p. 17.  “It is worthy notice, that our mountains are not solitary.”—­Ib., p. 26.  “It is of about one hundred feet diameter.”—­ Ib., 33.  “Entering a hill a quarter or half a mile.”—­Ib., p. 47.  “And herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.”—­Ib., p. 100.  “It was of a spheroidical form, of about forty feet diameter at the base, and had been of about twelve feet altitude.”—­Ib., p. 143.  “Before this it was covered with trees of twelve inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five feet depth and width.”—­Ibid. “Then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure.”—­Deut., xxiii, 24.  “Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary.”—­Ezekiel, xliv, 1.  “They will bless God that he has peopled one half the world with a race of freemen.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 94.  “What use can these words be, till their meaning is known?”—­Town’s Analysis, p. 7.  “The tents of the Arabs now are black, or a very dark colour.”—­The Friend, Vol. v, p. 265.  “They may not be unworthy the attention of young men.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 157.  “The pronoun that is frequently applied to persons, as well as things.”—­ Merchant’s Gram., p. 87.  “And who is in the same case that man is.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 148.  “He saw a flaming stone, apparently about four feet diameter.”—­The

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