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.
Noun to govern it, expressed or understood; as, St. James’s, Palace is understood; therefore one Genitive cannot govern another.”—­Ib., p. 111.  “Every adjective, and every adjective pronoun, belongs to a substantive, expressed or understood.”—­ Murray’s Gram., p. 161; Bacon’s, 48; Alger’s, 57; et al.  “Every adjective qualifies a substantive expressed or understood.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 97.  “Every adjective belongs to some noun expressed or understood.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 36.  “Adjectives belong to the nouns which they describe.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 137.  “Adjectives must agree with the nouns, which they qualify.”—­Fisk’s Murray, p. 101.  “The Adjective must agree with its Substantive in Number.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 94.  “Every adjective and participle belongs to some noun or pronoun expressed or understood.”—­Frost’s El. of Gram., p. 44.  “Every Verb of the Infinitive Mood, supposes a verb before it expressed or understood.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 94.  “Every Adverb has its Verb expressed or understood.”—­Ib., p. 94.  “Conjunctions which connect Sentence to Sentence, are always placed betwixt the two Propositions or Sentences which they unite.”—­Ib., p. 88.  “The words for all that, seem to be too low.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 213. “For all that seems to be too low and vulgar.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 139.  “The reader, or hearer, then, understands from and, that he is to add something.”—­J.  Brown’s E. Syntax, p. 124.  “But and never, never connects one thing with another thing, nor one word with another word.”—­Ib., p. 122. “’Six, and six are twelve.’  Here it is affirmed that, six is twelve!”—­Ib., p. 120.  “‘John, and his wife have six children.’  This is an instance of gross catachresis.  It is here affirmed that John has six children, and that his wife has six children.”—­Ib., p. 122.  “Nothing which is not right can be great.”—­Murray’s Exercises, 8vo, p. 146:  see Rambler, No. 185.  “Nothing can be great which is not right.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 277.  “The highest degree of reverence should be paid to youth.”—­Ib., p. 278.  “There is, in many minds, neither knowledge nor understanding.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 151; Russell’s, 84; Alger’s, 54; Bacon’s, 47; et al.  “Formerly, what we call the objective cases of our pronouns, were employed in the same manner as our present nominatives are.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 164.  “As it respects a choice of words and expressions, no rules of grammar can materially aid the learner.”—­S.  S. Greene’s Gram., 1st Ed., p. 202.  “Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, is a Noun.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, Sec.137.  “As all men are not brave, brave is itself comparative.”—­Ib., Sec.190.

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