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.

EXC.  III.—­“One person is chosen chairman or moderator.”  “Duration or time is measured by motion.”  “The governor or viceroy is chosen annually.”

EXC.  IV.—­“Reflection reason still the ties improve.”  “His neat plain parlour wants our modern style.”  “We are fearfully wonderfully made.”

UNDER RULE V.—­OF WORDS IN PAIRS.

“I inquired and rejected consulted and deliberated.”  “Seed-time and harvest cold and heat summer and winter day and night shall not cease.”

EXERCISE II.—­PUNCTUATION.

Copy the following sentences, and insert the COMMA where it is requisite.

EXAMPLES UNDER RULE VI.—­OF WORDS PUT ABSOLUTE.

“The night being dark they did not proceed.”  “There being no other coach we had no alternative.”  “Remember my son that human life is the journey of a day.”  “All circumstances considered it seems right.”  “He that overcometh to him will I give power.”  “Your land strangers devour it in your presence.”  “Ah sinful nation a people laden with iniquity!”

   “With heads declin’d ye cedars homage pay;
    Be smooth ye rocks ye rapid floods give way!”

UNDER RULE VII.—­OF WORDS IN APPOSITION.

“Now Philomel sweet songstress charms the night.” “’Tis chanticleer the shepherd’s clock announcing day.”  “The evening star love’s harbinger appears.”  “The queen of night fair Dian smiles serene.”  “There is yet one man Micaiah the son of Imlah.”  “Our whole company man by man ventured down.”  “As a work of wit the Dunciad has few equals.”

   “In the same temple the resounding wood
    All vocal beings hymned their equal God.”

EXC.  I.—­“The last king of Rome was Tarquinius Superbus.”  “Bossuet highly eulogizes Maria Theresa of Austria.”  “No emperor has been more praised than Marcus Aurelius, Antoninus.”

EXC.  II.—­“For he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith.”  “Remember the example of the patriarch Joseph.”  “The poet, Milton, excelled in prose as well as in verse.”

EXC.  III.—­“I wisdom dwell with prudence.”  “Ye fools be ye of an understanding heart.”  “I tell you that which you yourselves do know.”

EXC.  IV.—­“I crown thee king of intimate delights” “I count the world a stranger for thy sake.”  “And this makes friends such miracles below.”  “God has pronounced it death to taste that tree.”  “Grace makes the slave a freeman.”

UNDER RULE VIII.—­OF ADJECTIVES.

“Deaf with the noise I took my hasty flight.”  “Him piteous of his youth soft disengage.”  “I played a while obedient to the fair.”  “Love free as air spreads his light wings and flies.”  “Physical science separate from morals parts with its chief dignity.”

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