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.

“The inseparable Prepositions making no Sense alone, they are used only in Composition.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 66.  “The English Scholar learns little from the two last Rules.”—­Ib., Pref., p. xi.  “To prevent the body being stolen by the disciples.”—­Watson’s Apology, p. 123.  “To prevent the Jews rejoicing at his death.”—­Wood’s Dict., p. 584.  “After he had wrote the chronicles of the priesthood of John Hyrcanus.”—­Whiston’s Josephus, v, 195.  “Such words are sometimes parsed as a direct address, than which, nothing could be farther from the truth.”—­Goodenow’s Gram., p. 89.  “The signs of the tenses in these modes are as follows.”—­C.  Adams’s Gram., p. 33.  “The signs of the tenses in the Potential mode are as follows.”—­Ibid. “And, if more promiscuous examples be found necessary, they may be taken from Mr. Murray’s English Exercises.”—­ Nesbit’s Parsing, p. xvi. “One is a numeral adjective, the same as ten.”—­Ib., p. 95.  “Nothing so much distinguishes a little mind as to stop at words.”—­MONTAGUE:  Letter-Writer, p. 129.  “But I say, again, What signifies words?”—­Id., ib. “Obedience to parents is a divine command, given in both the Old and the New Testaments.”—­Nesbit’s Parsing, p. 207.  “A Compound Subject is a union of several Subjects to all which belong the same Attribute.”—­Fosdick’s De Sacy, on General Gram., p. 22.  “There are other languages in which the Conjunctive does not prevent our expressing the subject of the Conjunctive Proposition by a Pronoun.”—­Ib., p. 58.  “This distinction must necessarily be expressed by language, but there are several different modes of doing it.”—­Ib., p. 64.  “This action may be considered with reference to the person or thing upon whom the action falls.”—­Ib., p. 97.  “There is nothing in the nature of things to prevent our coining suitable words.”—­Barnard’s Gram., p. 41.  “What kind of a book is this?”—­Ib., p. 43.  “Whence all but him had fled.”—­Ib., p. 58.  “Person is a distinction between individuals, as speaking, spoken to, or spoken of.”—­Ib., p. 114.  “He repented his having neglected his studies at college.”—­Emmons’s Gram., p. 19.  “What avails the taking so much medicine, when you are so careless about taking cold?”—­Ib., p. 29.  “Active transitive verbs are those where the action passes from the agent to the object.”—­Ib., p. 33.  “Active intransitive verbs, are those where the action is wholly confined to the agent or actor.”—­Ibid. “Passive verbs express the receiving, or suffering, the action.”—­Ib., p. 34.  “The pluperfect tense expresses an action or event that passed prior or before some other period of time specified in the sentence.”—­Ib., p. 42.  “There is no doubt of his being a great statesman.”—­Ib., p. 64.  “Herschell is the fartherest from the sun of any of the planets.”—­Fuller’s

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