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.
“For the capacity is brought into action.”—­Id. “In this period, language and taste arrive at purity.”—­Webster cor. “And, should you not aspire to (or after) distinction in the republic of letters.”—­Kirkham cor. “Delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons.”—­Luke, xxi, 12. “He that is kept from falling into a ditch, is as truly saved, as he that is taken out of one.”—­Barclay cor. “The best of it is, they are but a sort of French Hugonots.”—­Addison cor. “These last ten examples are indeed of a different nature from the former.”—­R.  Johnson cor. “For the initiation of students into the principles of the English language.”—­Ann.  Rev. cor. “Richelieu profited by every circumstance which the conjuncture afforded.”—­Bolingbroke cor. “In the names of drugs and plants, the mistake of a word may endanger life.”—­Merchant’s Key, p. 185.  Or better:  “In naming drugs or plants, to mistake a word, may endanger life.”—­L.  Murray cor. “In order to the carrying of its several parts into execution.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “His abhorrence of the superstitious figure.”—­Priestley. “Thy prejudice against my cause.”—­Id. “Which is found in every species of liberty.”—­Hume cor. “In a hilly region on the north of Jericho.”—­Milman cor. “Two or more singular nouns coupled by AND require a verb or pronoun in the plural.”—­Lennie cor.

   “Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
    To wisdom, piety, delight, or use.”—­Denham cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—­TWO OBJECTS OR MORE.

“The Anglo-Saxons, however, soon quarrelled among themselves for precedence.”—­Const.  Misc. cor. “The distinctions among the principal parts of speech are founded in nature.”—­Webster cor. “I think I now understand the difference between the active verbs and those which are passive or neuter.”—­Ingersoll cor. “Thus a figure including a space within three lines, is the real as well as nominal essence of a triangle.”—­Locke cor. “We must distinguish between an imperfect phrase and a simple sentence, and between a simple sentence and a compound sentence.”—­Lowth, Murray, et al., cor. “The Jews are strictly forbidden by their law to exercise usury towards one an other.”—­Sale cor. “All the writers have distinguished themselves among themselves.”—­Addison cor. “This expression also better secures the systematic uniformity of the three cases.”—­Nutting cor. “When two or more infinitives or clauses are connected disjunctively as the subjects of an affirmation, the verb must be singular.”—­Jaudon

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