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.
of LOVE end in ED, it is regular.”—­Chandler cor. “But the usual arrangement and nomenclature prevent this from being readily seen.”—­N.  Butler cor.Do and did simply imply opposition or emphasis.”—­A.  Murray cor.I and an other make the plural WE; thou and an other are equivalent to YE; he, she, or it, and an other, make THEY.”—­Id.I and an other or others are the same as WE, the first person plural; thou and an other or others are the same as YE, the second person plural; he, she, or it, and an other or others, are the same as THEY, the third person plural.”—­Buchanan and Brit.  Gram. cor. “God and thou are two, and thou and thy neighbour are two.”—­Love Conquest cor. “Just as AN and A have arisen out of the numeral ONE.”—­Fowler cor. “The tone and style of all of them, particularly of the first and the last, are very different.”—­Blair cor. “Even as the roebuck and the hart are eaten.”—­Bible cor. “Then I may conclude that two and three do not make five.”—­Barclay cor. “Which, at sundry times, thou and thy brethren have received from us.”—­Id. “Two and two are four, and one is five:”  i, e., “and one, added to four, is five.”—­Pope cor. “Humility and knowledge with poor apparel, excel pride and ignorance under costly array.”—­See Murray’s Key, Rule 2d.  “A page and a half have been added to the section on composition.”—­Bullions cor. “Accuracy and expertness in this exercise are an important acquisition.”—­Id.

   “Woods and groves are of thy dressing,
    Hill and dale proclaim thy blessing.”  Or thus:—­
    “Hill and valley boast thy blessing.”—­Milton cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­THE VERB BEFORE JOINT NOMINATIVES.

“There are a good and a bad, a right and a wrong, in taste, as in other things.”—­Blair cor. “Whence have arisen much stiffness and affectation.”—­Id. “To this error, are owing, in a great measure, that intricacy and [that] harshness, in his figurative language, which I before noticed.”—­Blair and Jamieson cor. “Hence, in his Night Thoughts, there prevail an obscurity and a hardness of style.”—­Blair cor. See Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 167.  “There are, however, in that work, much good sense and excellent criticism.”—­Blair cor. “There are too much low wit and scurrility in Plautus.”  Or:  “There is, in Plautus, too much of low wit and scurrility.”—­Id. “There are too much reasoning and refinement, too much pomp and studied beauty, in them.”  Or:  “There is too much of

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