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.

18.  Can a uniform series of good grammars, Latin, Greek, English, &c., be produced by a mere revising of one defective book for each language? 19.  Whose are “The Principles of English Grammar” which Dr. Bullions has republished with alterations, “on the plan of Murray’s Grammar?” 20.  Can praise and success entitle to critical notice works in themselves unworthy of it? 21.  Do the Latin grammarians agree in their enumeration of the concords in Latin? 22.  What is said in Obs. 16th, of the plan of mixing syntax with etymology? 23.  Do not the principles of etymology affect those of syntax? 24.  Can any words agree, or disagree, except in something that belongs to each of them? 25.  How many and what parts of speech are concerned in government? 26.  Are rules of government to be applied to the governing words, or to the governed? 27.  What are gerundives? 28.  How many and what are the principles of syntax which belong to the head of simple relation? 29.  How many agreements, or concords, are there in English syntax? 30.  How many rules of government are there in the best Latin grammars? 31.  What fault is there in the usual distribution of these rules? 32.  How many and what are the governments in English syntax? 33.  Can the parsing of words be varied by any transposition which does not change their import? 34.  Can the parsing of words be affected by the parser’s notion of what constitutes a simple sentence? 35.  What explanation of simple and compound sentences is cited from Dr. Wilson, in Obs. 25? 36.  What notion had Dr. Adam of simple and compound sentences? 37.  Is this doctrine consistent either with itself or with Wilson’s? 38.  How can one’s notion of ellipsis affect his mode of parsing, and his distinction of sentences as simple or compound?

LESSON XIII.—­ARTICLES.

1.  Can one noun have more than one article? 2.  Can one article relate to more than one noun? 3.  Why cannot the omission of an article constitute a proper ellipsis? 4.  What is the position of the article with respect to its noun? 5.  What is the usual position of the article with respect to an adjective and a noun? 6.  Can the relative position of the article and adjective be a matter of indifference? 7.  What adjectives exclude, or supersede, the article? 8.  What adjectives precede the article? 9.  What four adverbs affect the position of the article and adjective? 10.  Do other adverbs come between the article and the adjective? 11.  Can any of the definitives which preclude an or a, be used with the adjective one? 12.  When the adjective follows its noun, where stands the article? 13.  Can the article in English, ever be placed after its noun? 14.  What is the effect of the word the before comparatives and superlatives? 15.  What article may sometimes be used in lieu of a possessive pronoun? 16.  Is the article an or a always supposed to imply unity? 17. 

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