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. “To feel the force of a compound or a derivative word.”—­Town cor. “To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions.”—­Murray et al. cor. “E has a long and a short sound in most languages.”—­Bicknell cor. “When the figurative and the literal sense are mixed and jumbled together.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The Hebrew, with which the Canaanitish and the Phoenician stand in connexion.”—­Conant and Fowler cor. “The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and the Swedish.”—­Fowler cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—­ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

“The path of truth is a plain and safe path.”—­Murray cor. “Directions for acquiring a just and happy elocution.”—­Kirkham cor. “Its leading object is, to adopt a correct and easy method.”—­Id. “How can it choose but wither in a long and sharp winter?”—­Cowley cor. “Into a dark and distant unknown.”—­Dr. Chalmers cor. “When the bold and strong enslaved his fellow man.”—­Chazotte cor. “We now proceed to consider the things most essential to an accurate and perfect sentence.”—­Murray cor. “And hence arises a second and very considerable source of the improvement of taste.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and agreeable emotion.”—­Id. “The deepest and bitterest feeling still is that of the separation.”—­Dr. M’Rie cor. “A great and good man looks beyond time.”—­See Brown’s Inst., p. 263.  “They made but a weak and ineffectual resistance.”—­Ib. “The light and worthless kernels will float.”—­Ib. “I rejoice that there is an other and better world.”—­Ib. “For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the public an other and better edition.”—­Kirkham cor. “He hoped that this title would secure to him an ample and independent authority.”—­L.  Murray cor. et al.  “There is, however, an other and more limited sense.”—­J.  Q. Adams cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­ARTICLES OR PLURALS.

“This distinction forms what are called the diffuse style and the concise.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of the Attic manner and the Asiatic.”—­Adams cor. “But the great design of uniting the Spanish and French monarchies under the former, was laid.”—­Bolingbroke cor. “In the solemn and poetic styles, it [do or did] is often rejected.”—­Allen cor. “They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective case and the nominative.”  Or:  “They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective and the nominative case.”  Or:  “They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative case, and also in the

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