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 words according to the rules of grammar.”—­Id. Better:  “Parsing is the resolving or explaining of a sentence according to the definitions and rules of grammar.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 28. (6.) “The parsing of a word, remember, is an enumerating and describing of its various qualities, and its grammatical relations to other words in the sentence.”—­Peirce cor. (7.) “For the parsing of a word is an enumerating and describing of its various properties, and [its] relations to [other words in] the sentence.”—­Id. (8.) “The parsing of a noun is an explanation of its person, number, gender, and case; and also of its grammatical relation in a sentence, with respect to some other word or words.”—­Ingersoll cor. (9.) “The parsing of any part of speech is an explanation of all its properties and relations.”—­Id. (10.)” Parsing is the resolving of a sentence into its elements.”—­Fowler cor. “The highway of the upright is, to depart from evil.”—­Prov., xvi, 17.  “Besides, the first step towards exhibiting the truth, should be, to remove the veil of error.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “Punctuation is the dividing of sentences, and the words of sentences, by points for pauses.”—­Id.An other fault is the using of the imperfect tense SHOOK in stead of the participle SHAKEN.”—­Churchill cor. “Her employment is the drawing of maps.”—­Alger cor.To go to the play, according to his notion, is, to lead a sensual life, and to expose one’s self to the strongest temptations.  This is a begging of the question, and therefore requires no answer.”—­Formey cor. “It is an overvaluing of ourselves, to reduce every thing to the narrow measure of our capacities.”—­Comly’s Key, in his Gram., p. 188; Fisk’s Gram., p. 135.  “What is vocal language?  It is speech, or the expressing of ideas by the human voice.”—­C.  W. Sanders cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­VERBS OF PREVENTING.

“The annulling power of the constitution prevented that enactment from becoming a law.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “Which prevents the manner from being brief.”—­Id. “This close prevents them from bearing forward as nominatives.”—­Rush cor. “Because this prevents it from growing drowsy.”—­Formey cor. “Yet this does not prevent him from being great.”—­Id. “To prevent it from being insipid.”—­Id. “Or whose interruptions did not prevent its continuance.”  Or thus:  “Whose interruptions did not prevent it from being

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