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.
cor. “They said, John the Baptist hath sent us unto thee.”—­Bible cor. “They indeed remember the names of an abundance of places.”—­Spect. cor. “Which created a great dispute between the young and the old men.”—­Goldsmith cor. “Then shall be read the Apostles’ or the Nicene Creed.”—­Com.  Prayer cor. “The rules concerning the perfect tenses and the supines of verbs are Lily’s.”—­K.  Henry’s Gr. cor. “It was read by the high and the low, the learned and the illiterate.”—­Dr. Johnson cor. “Most commonly, both the pronoun and the verb are understood.”—­Buchanan cor. “To signify the thick and the slender enunciation of tone.”—­Knight cor. “The difference between a palatial and a guttural aspirate is very small.”—­Id. “Leaving it to waver between the figurative and the literal sense.”—­Jamieson cor. “Whatever verb will not admit of both an active and a passive signification.”—­Alex.  Murray cor.The is often set before adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree.”—­Id. and Kirkham cor. “Lest any should fear the effect of such a change, upon the present or the succeeding age of writers.”—­Fowle cor. “In all these measures, the accents are to be placed on the even syllables; and every line is, in general, the more melodious, as this rule is the more strictly observed.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. “How many numbers do nouns appear to have?  Two:  the singular and the plural.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “How many persons?  Three; the first, the second, and the third.”—­Id. “How many cases?  Three; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.”—­Id.

   “Ah! what avails it me, the flocks to keep,
    Who lost my heart while I preserv’d the sheep:”—­or, “my sheep.”

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“The negroes are all descendants of Africans.”—­Morse cor.Sybarite was applied as a term of reproach to a man of dissolute manners.”—­Id. “The original signification of knave was boy.”—­Webster cor. “The meaning of these will be explained, for greater clearness and precision.”—­Bucke cor. “What sort of noun is man?  A noun substantive, common.”—­Buchanan cor. “Is what ever used as three kinds of pronoun?"_—­Kirkham’s Question cor._ [Answer:  “No; as a pronoun, it is either relative or interrogative.”—­G.  Brown.] “They delighted in having done it, as well as in the doing of it.”—­R.  Johnson cor.Both parts of this rule are exemplified in the following sentences.”—­Murray cor. “He has taught them to hope for an other and better world.”—­Knapp cor. “It was itself only preparatory to

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