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.

“Friz, to curl; frizzed, curled; frizzing, curling.”—­Webster cor. “The commercial interests served to foster the principles of Whiggism.”—­Payne cor. “Their extreme indolence shunned every species of labour.”—­Robertson cor. “In poverty and strippedness, they attend their little meetings.”—­The Friend cor. “In guiding and controlling the power you have thus obtained.”—­Abbott cor. “I began, Thou begannest or beganst, He began, &c.”—­A.  Murray cor. “Why does began change its ending; as, I began, Thou begannest or beganst?”—­Id. “Truth and conscience cannot be controlled by any methods of coercion.”—­Hints cor. “Dr. Webster nodded, when he wrote knit, knitter, and knitting-needle, without doubling the t.”—­G.  Brown.  “A wag should have wit enough to know when other wags are quizzing him.” “Bonny; handsome, beautiful, merry.”—­Walker cor.Coquettish; practising coquetry; after the manner of a jilt.”—­See Worcester. “Pottage; a species of food made of meat and vegetables boiled to softness in water.”—­See Johnson’s Dict.Pottager; (from pottage;) a porringer, a small vessel for children’s food.”  “Compromit, compromitted, compromitting; manumit, manumitted, manumitting.”—­Webster cor.Inferrible; that may be inferred or deduced from premises.”—­Walker.  “Acids are either solid, liquid, or gasseous.”—­Gregory cor. “The spark will pass through the interrupted space between the two wires, and explode the gasses.”—­Id. “Do we sound gasses and gasseous like cases and caseous?  No:  they are more like glasses and osseous.”—­G.  Brown.  “I shall not need here to mention Swimming, when he is of an age able to learn.”—­Locke cor. “Why do lexicographers spell thinnish and mannish with two Ens, and dimmish and rammish with one Em, each?”—­G.  Brown.Gas forms the plural regularly, gasses.”—­Peirce cor. “Singular, gas; Plural, gasses.”—­Clark cor. “These are contractions from shedded, bursted.”—­Hiley cor. “The Present Tense denotes what is occurring at the present time.”—­Day cor. “The verb ending in eth is of the solemn or antiquated style; as, He loveth, He walketh, He runneth.”—­Davis cor.

   “Thro’ Freedom’s sons no more remonstrance rings,
    Degrading nobles and controlling kings.”—­Johnson.

RULE IV—­NO DOUBLING.

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