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.

UNDER NOTE III.—­COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.

“Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish, is hardly granted to the same man.”—­Johnson cor. “To lay down rules for these, is as inefficacious.”—­Pratt cor. “To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. “To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely pleases the mind of man.”—­Fisher cor. “In this passage, ’according asis used in a manner which is very common.”—­Webster cor. “A CAUSE DE, is called a preposition; A CAUSE QUE, a conjunction.”—­Webster cor. “To these it is given to speak in the name of the Lord.”—­The Friend cor. “While wheat has no plural, oats has seldom any singular.”—­Cobbett cor. “He cannot assert that ll (i.e., double Ell) is inserted in fullness to denote the sound of u”—­Cobb cor.Ch, in Latin, has the power of k.”—­Gould cor.Ti, before a vowel, and unaccented, has the sound of si or ci.”—­Id. “In words derived from French, as chagrin, chicanery, and chaise, ch is sounded like sh.”—­Bucke cor. “But, in the words schism, schismatic, &c., the ch is silent.”—­Id.Ph, at the beginning of words, is always sounded like f.”—­Bucke cor.Ph has the sound of f as in philosophy.”—­Webster cor.Sh has one sound only, as in shall.”—­Id.Th has two sounds.”—­Id.Sc, before a, o, u, or r, has the sound of sk.”—­Id.Aw has the sound of a in hall.”—­Bolles cor.Ew sounds like u”—­Id.Ow, when both vowels are sounded, has the power of ou in thou.”—­Id.Ui, when both vowels are pronounced in one syllable, sounds like wi short, as in languid.”—­Id.

   “Ui three other sounds at least expresses,
    As who hears GUILE, REBUILD, and BRUISE, confesses.”
        —­Brightland cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.

“When each of the letters which compose this word, has been learned.”—­Dr. Weeks cor. “As neither of us denies that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Yet neither of them is remarkable for precision.”—­Id. “How far each of the three great epic poets has distinguished himself.”—­Id. “Each of these produces a separate, agreeable sensation.”—­Id. “On the Lord’s day, every one of us Christians keeps

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