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.
efficacy; Virtue, feminine, by reason of her beauty and loveliness.”—­Murray, Blair, et al. cor. “When you speak to a person or thing, the noun or pronoun is in the second person.”—­Bartlett cor. “You now know the noun; for noun means name.”—­Id.T.  What do you see? P.  A book. T.  Spell book.”—­R.  W. Green cor.T.  What do you see now? P.  Two books. T.  Spell books.”—­Id. “If the United States lose their rights as a nation.”—­Liberator cor. “When a person or thing is addressed or spoken to, the noun or pronoun is in the second person.”—­Frost cor. “When a person or thing is merely spoken of, the noun or pronoun is in the third person.”—­Id. “The word OX also, taking the same plural termination, makes OXEN.”—­Bucke cor.

   “Hail, happy States! yours is the blissful seat
    Where nature’s gifts and art’s improvements meet.”—­Everett cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­THE RELATIVE THAT.

(1.) “This is the most useful art that men possess.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The earliest accounts that history gives us, concerning all nations, bear testimony to these facts.”—­Blair et al. cor. “Mr. Addison was the first that attempted a regular inquiry into the pleasures of taste.”—­Blair cor. “One of the first that introduced it, was Montesquieu.”—­Murray cor. “Massillon is perhaps the most eloquent sermonizer that modern times have produced.”—­Blair cor. “The greatest barber that ever lived, is our guiding star and prototype.”—­Hart cor.

(2.) “When prepositions are subjoined to nouns, they are generally the same that are subjoined to the verbs from which the nouns are derived.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 200.  Better thus:  “The prepositions which are subjoined to nouns, are generally the same that,” &c.—­Priestley cor. “The same proportions that are agreeable in a model, are not agreeable in a large building.”—­Kames cor. “The same ornaments that we admire in a private apartment, are unseemly in a temple.”—­Murray cor. “The same that John saw also in the sun.”—­Milton cor.

(3.) “Who can ever be easy, that is reproached with his own ill conduct?”—­T. a Kempis cor. “Who is she that comes clothed in a robe of green?”—­Inst., p. 267.  “Who that has either sense or civility, does not perceive the vileness of profanity?”—­G.  Brown.

(4.) “The second person denotes the person or thing that is spoken to.”—­Kirkham cor. “The third person denotes the person or thing that is spoken of.”—­Id. “A passive verb denotes action received, or endured by the person or thing that is signified by its nominative.”—­Id. “The princes and states that had neglected or favoured the growth of this power.”—­Bolingbroke cor. “The nominative expresses the name of the person or thing that acts, or that is the subject of discourse.”—­Hiley cor.

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