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.
Gram., p. 155; Gould’s, 158.  “In some cases we can use either the nominative or accusative promiscuously.”—­Adam, p. 156; Gould, 159.  “Both the former and latter substantive are sometimes to be understood.”—­Adam, p. 157; Gould, 160.  “Many whereof have escaped both the commentator and poet himself.”—­Pope.  “The verbs must and ought have both a present and past signification.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 108.  “How shall we distinguish between the friends and enemies of the government?”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 352.  “Both the ecclesiastical and secular powers concurred in those measures.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 260.  “As the period has a beginning and end within itself it implies an inflexion.”—­Adams’s Rhet., ii, 245.  “Such as ought to subsist between a principal and accessory.”—­Kames, on Crit., ii, 39.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­CORRESPONDENCE PECULIAR.

“When both the upward and the downward slides occur in pronouncing a syllable, they are called a Circumflex or Wave.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, pp. 75 and 104.  “The word that is used both in the nominative and objective cases.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 69.  “But all the other moods and tenses of the verbs, both in the active and passive voices, are conjugated at large.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 81.  “Some writers on Grammar object to the propriety of admitting the second future, in both the indicative and subjunctive moods.”—­Ib., p. 82.  “The same conjunction governing both the indicative and the subjunctive moods, in the same sentence, and in the same circumstances, seems to be a great impropriety.”—­Ib., p. 207.  “The true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative moods in this tense.”—­Ib., p. 208.  “I doubt of his capacity to teach either the French or English languages.”—­Chazotte’s Essay, p. 7.  “It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active transitive and the active intransitive forms of the verb, as between the active and passive forms.”—­Nixon’s Parser, p. 13.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­A SERIES OF TERMS.

“As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and husbandman.”—­Chazotte’s Essay, p. 24.  “They may be divided into four classes—­the Humanists, Philanthropists, Pestalozzian and the Productive Schools.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. iii.  “Verbs have six tenses, the Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, the Pluperfect, and the First and Second Future tenses.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 138; L.  Murray’s, 68; R.  C. Smith’s, 27; Alger’s, 28. “Is is an irregular verb neuter, indicative mood, present tense, and the third person singular.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. ii, p. 2. “Should give is an irregular verb active, in the potential mood, the imperfect

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