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.

   “A large amend by fortune’s hand is made,
    And the lost Punic blood is well repay’d.”—­Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—­NOUNS CONNECTED.

“As where a landscape is conjoined with the music of birds, and the odour of flowers.”—­Kames cor. “The last order resembles the second in the mildness of its accent, and the softness of its pause.”—­Id. “Before the use of the loadstone, or the knowledge of the compass.”—­Dryden cor. “The perfect participle and the imperfect tense ought not to be confounded.”—­Murray cor. “In proportion as the taste of a poet or an orator becomes more refined.”—­Blair cor. “A situation can never be more intricate, so long as there is an angel, a devil, or a musician, to lend a helping hand.”—­Kames cor. “Avoid rude sports:  an eye is soon lost, or a bone broken.”—­Inst., p. 262.  “Not a word was uttered, nor a sign given.”—­Ib. “I despise not the doer, but the deed.”—­Ib. “For the sake of an easier pronunciation and a more agreeable sound.”—­Lowth cor. “The levity as well as the loquacity of the Greeks made them incapable of keeping up the true standard of history.”—­ Bolingbroke cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

“It is proper that the vowels be a long and a short one.”—­Murray cor. “Whether the person mentioned was seen by the speaker a long or a short time before.”—­Id. et al.  “There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter.”—­Adam cor. “The numbers are two; the singular and the plural.”—­Id. et al.  “The persons are three; the first, the second, and the third.”—­Iidem.  “Nouns and pronouns have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.”—­ Comly and Ing. cor. “Verbs have five moods; namely, the infinitive, the indicative, the potential, the subjunctive, and the imperative.”—­ Bullions et al. cor. “How many numbers have pronouns?  Two, the singular and the plural.”—­Bradley cor. “To distinguish between an interrogative and an exclamatory sentence.”—­Murray et al. cor. “The first and the last of which are compound members.”—­Lowth cor. “In the last lecture, I treated of the concise and the diffuse, the nervous and the feeble manner.”—­Blair cor. “The passive and the neuter verbs I shall reserve for some future conversation.”—­Ingersoll cor. “There are two voices; the active and the passive.”—­Adam et al. cor. “WHOSE is rather the poetical than the regular genitive of WHICH.”—­Johnson

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