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.

“There are a reputable and a disreputable practice.”  Or:  “There is a reputable, and there is a disreputable practice.”—­Adams cor. “This man and this were born in her.”—­Milton cor. “This man and that were born in her.”—­Bible cor. “This and that man were born there.”—­Hendrick cor. “Thus le in l~ego, and le in l=egi, seem to be sounded equally long.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “A distinct and an accurate articulation form the groundwork of good delivery.”  Or:  “A distinct and accurate articulation forms the groundwork of good delivery.”—­Kirkham cor. “How are vocal and written language understood?”—­Sanders cor. “The good, the wise, and the learned man, are ornaments to human society.”  Or:  “The good, wise, and learned man is an ornament to human society.”—­Bartlett cor.In some points, the expression of song and that of speech are identical.”—­Rush cor. “To every room, there were an open and a secret passage.”—­Johnson cor. “There are such things as a true and a false taste; and the latter as often directs fashion, as the former.”—­Webster cor. “There are such things as a prudent and an imprudent institution of life, with regard to our health and our affairs.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “The lot of the outcasts of Israel, and that of the dispersed of Judah, however different in one respect, have in an other corresponded with wonderful exactness.”—­Hope of Israel cor. “On these final syllables, the radical and the vanishing movement are performed.”—­Rush cor. “To be young or old, and to be good, just, or the contrary, are physical or moral events.”—­Spurzheim cor., and Felch. “The eloquence of George Whitfield and that of John Wesley were very different in character each from the other.”—­Dr. Sharp cor. “The affinity of m for the series beginning with b, and that of n for the series beginning with t, give occasion for other euphonic changes.”—­Fowler cor.

   “Pylades’ soul, and mad Orestes’, were
    In these, if right the Greek philosopher.”  Or thus:—­
    “Pylades’ and Orestes’ soul did pass
    To
these, if we believe Pythagoras.”  Or, without ellipsis:—­
    “Pylades and Orestes’ souls did pass
    To these, if we believe Pythagoras.”—­Cowley corrected.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.

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