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.

   “When all nature’s hush’d asleep. 
    Nor love, nor guilt, doth vigils keep.”

LESSON II.—­ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.

“A Versifier and a Poet are two different things.”—­Brightland cor. “Those qualities will arise from the well-expressing of the subject.”—­Id. “Therefore the explanation of NETWORK is not noticed here.”—­Mason cor. “When emphasis or pathos is necessary to be expressed.”—­Humphrey cor. “Whether this mode of punctuation is correct, or whether it is proper to close the sentence with the mark of admiration, may be made a question.”—­Id. “But not every writer in those days was thus correct.”—­Id. “The sounds of A, in English orthoepy, are no fewer than four.”—­Id. “Our present code of rules is thought to be generally correct.”  Or:  “The rules in our present code are thought to be generally correct.”—­Id. “To prevent it from running into an other”—­Id.Shakspeare, perhaps, the greatest poetical genius that England has produced.”—­Id. “This I will illustrate by example; but, before doing so, a few preliminary remarks may be necessary.”—­Id. “All such are entitled to two accents each, and some of them to two accents nearly equal.”—­Id. “But some cases of the kind are so plain, that no one needs to exercise (or, need exercise) his judgement therein.”—­Id. “I have forborne to use the word.”—­Id. “The propositions, ‘He may study,’ ‘He might study,’ ‘He could study,’ affirm an ability or power to study.”—­E.  J. Hallock cor. “The divisions of the tenses have occasioned grammarians much trouble and perplexity.”—­Id. “By adopting a familiar, inductive method of presenting this subject, one may render it highly attractive to young learners.”—­Wells cor. “The definitions and rules of different grammarians were carefully compared with one an other:”  or—­“one with an other.”—­Id. “So as not wholly to prevent some sound from issuing.”—­Sheridan cor. “Letters of the Alphabet, not yet noticed.”—­Id. “‘IT is sad,’ ‘IT is strange,’ &c., seem to express only that the thing is sad, strange, &c.”—­Well-Wishers cor. “The winning is easier than the preserving of a conquest.”—­Same.  “The United States find themselves the owners of a vast region of country at the west.”—­H.  Mann cor. “One or more letters placed before a word are a prefix.”—­S.  W. Clark cor. “One or more letters added to a word, are a Suffix.”—­Id.Two thirds of my hair have fallen off.”  Or:  “My hair has, two thirds of it, fallen off.”—­Id. “‘Suspecting’ describes us, the

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