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.

Whatsoever is a pronoun. 1.  A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun.

Is is a verb. 1.  A verb is a word that signifies to be, to act, or to be acted upon.

False is a common adjective, of the positive degree; compared regularly, false, falser, falsest. 1.  An adjective is a word added to a noun or pronoun, and generally expresses quality. 2.  A common adjective is any ordinary epithet, or adjective denoting quality or situation. 3.  The positive degree is that which is expressed by the adjective in its simple form.

Blundering is a participial adjective, compared by means of the adverbs; blundering, more blundering, most blundering; or, blundering, less blundering, least blundering. 1.  An adjective is a word added to a noun or pronoun, and generally expresses quality. 2.  A participial adjective is one that has the form of a participle, but differs from it by rejecting the idea of time. 3.  Those adjectives which may be varied in sense, but not in form, are compared by means of adverbs.

Or is a conjunction. 1.  A conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences in construction, and to show the dependence of the terms so connected.

Unmannerly is a common adjective, compared by means of the adverbs; unmannerly, more unmannerly, most unmannerly; or, unmannerly, less unmannerly, least unmannerly. 1.  An adjective is a word added to a noun or pronoun, and generally expresses quality. 2.  A common adjective is any ordinary epithet, or adjective denoting quality or situation. 3.  Those adjectives which may be varied in sense, but not in form, are compared by means of adverbs.

LESSON I.—­PARSING.

“The noblest and most beneficial invention of which human ingenuity can boast, is that of writing.”—­Robertson’s America, Vol.  II, p. 193.

“Charlemagne was the tallest, the handsomest, and the strongest man of his time; his appearance was truly majestic, and he had surprising agility in all sorts of manly exercises.”—­Stories of France, p. 19.

“Money, like other things, is more or less valuable, as it is less or more plentiful.”—­Beanie’s Moral Science, p. 378.

“The right way of acting, is, in a moral sense, as much a reality, in the mind of an ordinary man, as the straight or the right road.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist.  Lang., i, 118.

“The full period of several members possesses most dignity and modulation, and conveys also the greatest degree of force, by admitting the closest compression of thought.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 79.

“His great master, Demosthenes, in addressing popular audiences, never had recourse to a similar expedient.  He avoided redundancies, as equivocal and feeble.  He aimed only to make the deepest and most efficient impression; and he employed for this purpose, the plainest, the fewest, and the most emphatic words.”—­Ib., p. 68.

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