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.
You has always a plural verb.”—­Bullions cor. “How do you know that love is of the first person?  Ans.  Because we, the pronoun, is of the first person.”—­Id. and Lennie cor. “The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea.”—­Gray’s Elegy, l. 2:  Bullions cor. “Iambic verses have their second, fourth, and other even syllables accented.”—­Bullions cor. “Contractions that are not allowable in prose, are often made in poetry.”—­Id. “Yet to their general’s voice they soon obey’d”—­ Milton.  “It never presents to his mind more than one new subject at the same time.”—­Felton cor. “An abstract noun is the name of some particular quality considered apart from its substance.”—­Brown’s Inst. of E. Gram., p. 32. “A noun is of the first person when it denotes the speaker.”—­Felton cor. “Which of the two brothers is a graduate?”—­ Hallock cor. “I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know.”—­Cowper. “Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!”—­Pope.  “This do; take to you censers, thou, Korah, and all thy company.”—­Bible cor. “There are three participles; the imperfect, the perfect, and the preperfect:  as, reading, read, having read.  Transitive verbs have an active and passive participle:  that is, their form for the perfect is sometimes active, and sometimes passive; as, read, or loved.”—­S.  S. Greene cor.

   “O Heav’n, in my connubial hour decree
    My spouse this man, or such a man as he.”—­Pope cor.

LESSON IV.—­UNDER VARIOUS RULES.

“The past tenses (of Hiley’s subjunctive mood) represent conditional past facts or events, of which the speaker is uncertain.”—­Hiley cor. “Care also should be taken that they be not introduced too abundantly.”—­Id. “Till they have become familiar to the mind.”  Or:  “Till they become familiar to the mind.”—­Id. “When once a particular arrangement and phraseology have become familiar to the mind.”—­Id. “I have furnished the student with the plainest and most practical directions that I could devise.”—­Id. “When you are conversant with the Rules of Grammar, you will be qualified to commence the study of Style.”—­Id.C before e, i, or y, always has a soft sound, like s.”—­L.  Murray cor.G before e, i, or y, is generally soft; as in genius, ginger, Egypt.”—­Id.C before e, i, or y, always sounds soft, like s.”—­Hiley cor.G is generally soft before e, i, or y; as in genius, ginger, Egypt.”—­Id. “A perfect alphabet must always contain just

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