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.

“My hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, centre in you.”—­Greenleaf or Sanborn cor. “This mood implies possibility or liberty, will or obligation.”—­Ingersoll cor. “Substance is divided into body and spirit, into extended and thinking.”—­Brightland cor. “These consonants, [d and t,] like p and b, f and v, k and hard g, and s and z, are letters of the same organ.”—­J.  Walker cor. “Neither fig nor twist, pigtail nor Cavendish, has passed my lips since; nor ever shall again.”—­Cultivator cor. “The words whoever or whosoever, whichever or whichsoever, and whatever or whatsoever, are called Compound Relative Pronouns.”—­Day cor. “Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness, govern the dative.”—­Bullions cor.

UNDER RULE VI.—­OF WORDS ABSOLUTE.

“Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.”—­Psalm xxiii 4.  “Depart, ye wicked.”—­J.  W. Wright cor. “He saith unto his mother.  Woman, behold thy son!”—­John, xix, 26.  “Thou, God, seest me.”—­Bullions cor. “John, write me a letter.  Henry, go home.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor., twice.  “Now, G. Brown, let us reason together.”—­Id.Mr. Smith, you say, on page 11th, ‘The objective case denotes the object’”—­Id. “Gentlemen, will you always speak as you mean?”—­Id. “John, I sold my books to William, for his brothers.”—­Id. “Walter, and Seth, I will take my things, and leave yours.”—­Id. “Henry, Julia and Jane left their umbrella, and took yours.”—­Id. “John, harness the horses, and go to the mine for some coal.”—­Id. “William, run to the store, for a few pounds of tea.”—­Id. “The king being dead, the parliament was dissolved.”—­Chandler cor.

   “Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,
    And let me languish into life.”
        —­Pope, Brit.  Poets, vi, 317.

    “Forbear, great man, in arms renown’d, forbear.”
        —­Hiley’s Gram., p. 127.

    “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! 
    Each prayer accepted, and each wish resign’d.”
        —­Pope, Brit.  Poets, vi, 335.

UNDER RULE VII.—­OF WORDS IN APPOSITION.

“We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,” &c.—­Constit. of U. S. “The Lord, the covenant God of his people, requires it.”—­A.  S. Mag. cor. “He, as a patriot, deserves praise.”—­Hallock cor. “Thomson, the watchmaker and jeweller from London, was of the party.”—­Bullions cor. “Every body knows that the person here spoken of by the name of ‘the Conqueror,’ is William, duke of Normandy.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “The words myself, thyself, himself, herself, itself, and their plurals, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves, are called Compound Personal Pronouns.”—­Day cor.

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