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.
objective.”  Or:  “They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative and objective cases.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 148.  Or, better:  “They cannot be, at the same time, in both cases, the nominative and the objective.”—­Murray et al. cor. “They are named the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees.”—­Smart cor. “Certain adverbs are capable of taking an inflection; namely, that of the comparative and superlative degrees.”—­Fowler cor. “In the subjunctive mood, the present and imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense.”—­Murray et al. cor. “The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future tense, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative.”—­Kirkham bettered.  “What rules apply in parsing personal pronouns of the second and third persons?”—­Id. “Nouns are sometimes in the nominative or the objective case after the neuter verb be, or after an active-intransitive or a passive verb.”  “The verb varies its ending in the singular, in order to agree with its nominative, in the first, second, and third persons.”—­Id. “They are identical in effect with the radical and the vanishing stress.”—­Rush cor. “In a sonnet, the first, the fourth, the fifth, and the eighth line, usually rhyme to one an other:  so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh lines; the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth lines; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth lines.”—­Churchill cor. “The iron and golden ages are run; youth and manhood are departed.”—­Wright cor. “If, as you say, the iron and the golden age are past, the youth and the manhood of the world.”—­Id. “An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments.”—­Henry cor. “The names and order of the books of the Old and the New Testament.”—­Bible cor. “In the second and third persons of that tense.”—­Murray cor. “And who still unites in himself the human and the divine nature.”—­Gurney cor. “Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English languages.”—­Murray cor. “Whence arise these two numbers, the singular and the plural.”—­Burn cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­CORRESPONDENT TERMS.

“Neither the definitions nor the examples are entirely the same as his.”—­Ward cor. “Because it makes a discordance between the thought and the expression.”—­Kames cor. “Between the adjective and the following substantive.”—­Id. “Thus Athens became both the repository and the nursery of learning.”—­Chazotte cor. “But the French pilfered from both the Greek and the Latin.”—­Id. “He shows that Christ is both the power and the wisdom of God.”—­The Friend cor. “That he might be Lord both of

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