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.
writing with propriety, his being free of the two former faults seems implied.”—­Ib., p. 94.  “To prevent our being carried away by that torrent of false and frivolous taste.”—­Ib., p. 12.  “When we are unable to assign the reasons of our being pleased.”—­Ib., p. 15.  “An adjective will not make good sense without joining it to a noun.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 12.  “What is said respecting sentences being inverted?”—­Ib., p. 71.  “Though he admits of all the other cases, made use of by the Latins.”—­Bicknell’s Gram., p. viii.  “This indeed, is accounting but feebly for its use in this instance.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 148.  “The knowledge of what passes in the mind is necessary for the understanding the Principles of Grammar.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 73.  “By than’s being used instead of as, it is not asserted that the former has as much fruit as the latter.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 207.  “Thus much for the Settling your Authority over your Children.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 58.

EXERCISE VII.—­ADVERBS.

“There can scarce be a greater Defect in a Gentleman, than not to express himself well either in Writing or Speaking.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 335.  “She seldom or ever wore a thing twice in the same way.”—­Castle Rackrent, p. 84.  “So can I give no reason, nor I will not.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 45.  “Nor I know not where I did lodge last night.”—­Ib., p. 270.  “It is to be presumed they would become soonest proficient in Latin.”—­Burn’s Gram., p. xi.  “The difficulty of which has not been a little increased by that variety.”—­Ward’s Pref. to Lily’s Gram., p. xi.  “That full endeavours be used in every monthly meeting to seasonably end all business or cases that come before them.”—­N.  E. Discipline, p. 44.  “In minds where they had scarce any footing before.”—­Spectator, No. 566.  “The negative form is when the adverb not is used.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 61.  “The interrogative form is when a question is asked.”—­Ibid. “The finding out the Truth ought to be his whole Aim.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 239.  “Mention the first instance when that is used in preference to who, whom, or which.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 96.  “The plot was always exceeding simple.  It admitted of few incidents.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 470.  “Their best tragedies make not a deep enough impression on the heart.”—­Ib., p. 472.  “The greatest genius on earth, not even a Bacon, can be a perfect master of every branch.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 13.  “The verb OUGHT is only used in the indicative [and subjunctive moods].”—­Dr. Ash’s Gram., p. 70.  “It is still a greater deviation from congruity, to affect not only variety in the words, but also in the construction.”—­ Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 28.  “It has besides been found that, generally, students attend

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