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. “And if you can find a trissyllable or a polysyllable, point it out.”—­Id. “The false refuges in which the atheist or the sceptic has intrenched himself.”—­Chr.  Spect. cor. “While the man or woman thus assisted by art, expects his charms or hers will be imputed to nature alone.”—­Opie cor. “When you press a watch, or pull a clock, it answers your question with precision; for it repeats exactly the hour of the day, and tells you neither more nor less than you desire to know.”—­Bolingbroke cor.

   “Not the Mogul, or Czar of Muscovy,
    Not Prester John, or Cham of Tartary,
    Is in his mansion monarch more than I.”—­King cor.

CHAPTER VI.—­VERBS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIV AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­VERB AFTER THE NOMINATIVE.

“Before you left Sicily, you were reconciled to Verres.”—­Duncan cor. “Knowing that you were my old master’s good friend.”—­Spect. cor. “When the judge dares not act, where is the loser’s remedy?”—­Webster cor. “Which extends it no farther than the variation of the verb extends.”—­Mur. cor. “They presently dry without hurt, as myself have often proved.”—­R.  Williams cor. “Whose goings-forth have been from of old, from everlasting.”—­Micah, v, 2.  “You were paid to fight against Alexander, not to rail at him.”—­Porter cor. “Where more than one part of speech are almost always concerned.”—­Churchill cor. “Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employs their thoughts.”  Or:  “No less things than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employ their thoughts.”—­Duncan cor. “I wondered where you were, my dear.”—­Lloyd cor. “When thou most sweetly singst.”—­Drummond cor. “Who dares, at the present day, avow himself equal to the task?”—­Gardiner cor. “Every body is very kind to her, and not discourteous to me.”—­Byron cor. “As to what thou sayst respecting the diversity of opinions.”—­M.  B. cor. “Thy nature, Immortality, who knows?”—­Everest cor. “The natural distinction of sex in animals, gives rise to what, in grammar, are called genders.”—­Id. “Some pains have likewise been taken.”—­Scott cor. “And many a steed in his stables was seen.”—­Penwarne cor. “They were forced to eat what never was esteemed food.”—­Josephus cor. “This that you yourself have spoken, I desire that they may take their oaths upon.”—­Hutchinson cor. “By men whose experience best qualifies them to judge.”—­Committee cor. “He dares venture to kill and destroy several other kinds of fish.”—­Walton

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