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.

“He instructed and fed the crowds that surrounded him.”—­Murray’s Key.  “The court, which gives currency to manners, ought to be exemplary.” p. 187.  “Nor does he describe classes of sinners that do not exist.”—­Mag. cor. “Because the nations among which they took their rise, were not savage.”—­Murray cor. “Among nations that are in the first and rude periods of society.”—­Blair cor. “The martial spirit of those nations among which the feudal government prevailed.”—­Id. “France, which was in alliance with Sweden.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 97.  “That faction, in England, which most powerfully opposed his arbitrary pretensions.”—­Ib. “We may say, ‘the crowd which was going up the street.’”—­Cobbett’s E. Gram., 204.  “Such members of the Convention which formed this Lyceum, as have subscribed this Constitution.”—­N.  Y. Lyceum cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—­CONFUSION OF SENSES.

The name of the possessor shall take a particular form to show its case.”—­Kirkham cor. “Of which reasons, the principal one is, that no noun, properly so called, implies the presence of the thing named.”—­Harris cor.Boston is a proper noun, which distinguishes the city of Boston from other cities.”—­Sanborn cor.The word CONJUNCTION means union, or the act of joining together. Conjunctions are used to join or connect either words or sentences.”—­Id. “The word INTERJECTION means the act of throwing between.  Interjections are interspersed among other words, to express strong or sudden emotion.”—­Id.Indeed is composed of in and deed.  The words may better be written separately, as they formerly were.”—­Cardell cor.Alexander, on the contrary, is a particular name; and is employed to distinguish an individual only.”—­Jamieson cor. “As an indication that nature itself had changed its course.”  Or:—­“that Nature herself had changed her course.”—­History cor. “Of removing from the United States and their territories the free people of colour.”—­Jenifer cor. “So that gh may be said not to have its proper sound.”  Or thus:  “So that the letters, g and h, may be said not to have their proper sounds.”—­Webster cor. “Are we to welcome the loathsome harlot, and introduce her to our children?”—­Maturin cor. “The first question is this:  ’Is reputable, national, and present use, which, for brevity’s sake, I shall hereafter simply denominate good use, always uniform, [i. e., undivided, and unequivocal,] in its decisions?”—­Campbell cor.In personifications, Time is always masculine, on account of his mighty

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