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.
“’While I of things to come, As past rehearsing, sing.’—­POLLOK.  That is, ’While I sing of things to come, as if I were rehearsing things that are past.’”—­Kirkham cor. “A simple sentence usually has in it but one nominative, and but one finite verb.”—­Folker cor. “An irregular verb is a verb that does not form the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 75.  “But, when the antecedent is used in a restricted sense, a comma is sometimes inserted before the relative; as, ’There is no charm in the female sex, which can supply the place of virtue.’”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 273.  Or:  “But, when the antecedent is used in a restricted sense, no comma is usually inserted before the relative; as, ’There is in the female sex no charm which can supply the place of virtue.’”—­Kirkham cor. “Two capitals used in this way, denote different words; but one repeated, marks the plural number:  as, L. D. Legis Doctor; LL.  D. Legum Doctor.”—­Gould cor. “Was any person present besides the mercer?  Yes; his clerk.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The word adjective comes from the Latin adjectivum; and this, from ad, to, and jacio, I cast.”—­Kirkham cor. “Vision, or Imagery, is a figure by which the speaker represents the objects of his imagination, as actually before his eyes, and present to his senses.  Thus Cicero, in his fourth oration against Cataline:  ’I seem to myself to behold this city, the ornament of the earth, and the capital of all nations, suddenly involved in one conflagration.  I see before me the slaughtered heaps of citizens lying unburied in the midst of their ruined country.  The furious countenance of Ceth[=e]’gus rises to my view, while with savage joy he is triumphing in your miseries.’”—­Dr. Blair cor.; also L.  Murray.  “When two or more verbs follow the same nominative, an auxiliary that is common to them both or all, is usually expressed to the first, and understood to the rest:  as, ‘He has gone and left me;’ that is, ’He has gone and has left me.’”—­Comly cor. “When I use the word pillar to denote a column that supports an edifice, I employ it literally.”—­Hiley cor.In poetry, the conjunction nor is often used for neither; as

    ’A stately superstructure, that nor wind,
    Nor wave, nor shock of falling years, could move.’—­POLLOK.”—­Id.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XII—­OF PERVERSIONS.

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