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.
being a blockhead.”—­Spect. cor. “We may insure or promote what will make it a happy state of existence to ourselves.”—­Gurney cor.Since it often undergoes the same kind of unnatural treatment.”—­Kirkham cor. “Their apparent foolishness”—­“Their appearance of foolishness”—­or, “That they appear foolishness,—­is no presumption against this.”—­Butler cor. “But what arises from them as being offences; i.e., from their liability to be perverted.”—­Id. “And he went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one that worshiped God.”—­Acts cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—­OF FALSE IDENTIFICATION.

“But popular, he observes, is an ambiguous word.”—­Blair cor. “The infinitive mood, a phrase, or a sentence, is often made the subject of a verb.”—­Murray cor. “When any person, in speaking, introduces his name after the pronoun I, it is of the first person; as, ’I, James, of the city of Boston.’”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “The name of the person spoken to, is of the second person; as, ‘James, come to me.’”—­Id. “The name of the person or thing merely spoken of, or about, is of the third person; as, ‘James has come.’”—­Id. “The passive verb has no object, because its subject or nominative always represents what is acted upon, and the object of a verb must needs be in the objective case.”—­Id. “When a noun is in the nominative to an active verb, it denotes the actor.”—­Kirkham cor. “And the pronoun THOU or YE, standing for the name of the person or persons commanded, is its nominative.”—­Ingersoll cor. “The first person is that which denotes the speaker.”—­Brown’s Institutes, p. 32.  “The conjugation of a verb is a regular arrangement of its different variations or inflections throughout the moods and tenses.”—­Wright cor. “The first person is that which denotes the speaker or writer.”—­G.  BROWN:  for the correction of Parker and Fox, Hiley, and Sanborn.  “The second person is that which denotes the hearer, or the person addressed.”—­Id.:  for the same.  “The third person is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of.”—­Id.:  for the same, “I is of the first person, singular; WE, of the first person, plural.”—­Mur. et al. cor. “THOU is of the second person, singular; YE or You, of the second person, plural.”—­Iid. “HE, SHE, or IT, is of the third person, singular; THEY, of the third person, plural.”—­Iid. “The nominative case denotes the actor, and is the subject of the verb.”—­Kirkham cor. “John is the actor, therefore the

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