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.

1.  What is said of the parsing of a preposition? 2.  How can the terms of relation which pertain to the preposition be ascertained? 3.  What is said of the transposition of the two terms? 4.  Between what parts of speech, as terms of the relation, can a preposition be used? 5.  What is said of the ellipsis of one or the other of the terms? 6.  Is to before the infinitive to be parsed just as any other preposition? 7.  What is said of Dr. Adam’s “To taken absolutely?” 8.  What is observed in relation to the exceptions to Rule 23d? 9.  What is said of the placing of prepositions? 10.  What is told of two prepositions coming together? 11.  In how many and what ways does the relation of prepositions admit of complexity? 12.  What is the difference between in and into? 13.  What notice is taken of the application of between, betwixt, among, amongst, amid, amidst? 14.  What erroneous remark have Priestley, Murray, and others, about two prepositions “in the same construction?” 15.  What false doctrine have Lowth, Murray, and others, about the separating of the preposition from its noun? 16.  What is said of the prepositions which follow averse and aversion, except and exception? 17.  What is remarked concerning the use of of, to, on, and upon? 18.  Can there be an inelegant use of prepositions which is not positively ungrammatical?

LESSON XXXII.—­INTERJECTIONS.

1.  Are all interjections to be parsed as being put absolute? 2.  What is said of O and the vocative case? 3.  What do Nixon and Kirkham erroneously teach about cases governed by interjections? 4.  What say Murray, Ingersoll, and Lennie, about interjections and cases? 5.  What is shown of the later teaching to which Murray’s erroneous and unoriginal remark about “O, oh, and ah,” has given rise? 6.  What notice is taken of the application of the rule for “O, oh, and ah,” to nouns of the second person? 7.  What is observed concerning the further extension of this rule to nouns and pronouns of the third person? 8.  What authors teach that interjections are put absolute, and have no government? 9.  What is the construction of the pronoun in “Ah me!” “Ah him!” or any similar exclamation? 10.  Is the common rule for interjections, as requiring certain cases after them, sustained by any analogy from the Latin syntax? 11.  Can it be shown, on good authority, that O in Latin may be followed by the nominative of the first person or the accusative of the second? 12.  What errors in the construction and punctuation of interjectional phrases are quoted from Fisk, Smith, and Kirkham? 13.  What is said of those sentences in which an interjection is followed by a preposition or the conjunction that? 14.  What is said of the place of the interjection? 15.  What says O. B. Peirce about the name and place of the interjection? 16.  What is offered in refutation of Peirce’s doctrine?

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