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 dead and of the living.”—­Bible cor. “This is neither the obvious nor the grammatical meaning of his words.”—­Blair cor. “Sometimes both the accusative and the infinitive are understood.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “In some cases, we can use either the nominative or the accusative, promiscuously.”—­Iidem.  “Both the former and the latter substantive are sometimes to be understood.”—­Iidem.  “Many of which have escaped both the commentator and the poet himself.”—­Pope cor. “The verbs MUST and OUGHT, have both a present and a past signification.”—­L.  Murray cor. “How shall we distinguish between the friends and the enemies of the government?”—­Dr. Webster cor. “Both the ecclesiastical and the secular powers concurred in those measures.”—­Dr. Campbell cor. “As the period has a beginning and an end within itself, it implies an inflection.”—­J.  Q. Adams cor. “Such as ought to subsist between a principal and an accessory.”—­Ld.  Kames cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­CORRESPONDENCE PECULIAR.

“When both the upward and the downward slide occur in the sound of one syllable, they are called a CIRCUMFLEX, or WAVE.”—­Kirkham cor. “The word THAT is used both in the nominative and in the objective case.”—­Sanborn cor. “But in all the other moods and tenses, both of the active and of the passive voice [the verbs] are conjugated at large.”—­Murray cor. “Some writers on grammar, admitting the second-future tense into the indicative mood, reject it from the subjunctive.”—­Id.After the same conjunction, to use both the indicative and the subjunctive mood in the same sentence, and under the same circumstances, seems to be a great impropriety.”—­Id. “The true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative mood in this tense.”—­Id. “I doubt of his capacity to teach either the French or the English language.”—­Chazotte cor. “It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active-transitive and the active-intransitive verb, as between the active and the passive.”—­Nixon cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­A SERIES OF TERMS.

“As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and the husbandman.”—­Chazotte cor. “They may be divided into four classes; the Humanists, the Philanthropists, the Pestalozzians, and the Productives.”—­Smith cor. “Verbs have six tenses; the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the first-future, and the second-future.”—­Murray et al. cor. “Is it an irregular neuter verb [from be, was, being, been; found in]

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