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.
noun JOHN is in the nominative case.”—­Id. “The actor is always expressed by the nominative case, unless the verb be passive.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “The nominative case does not always denote an agent or actor.”—­Mack cor.In mentioning each name, tell the part of speech.”—­John Flint cor.Of what number is boy?  Why?”—­Id.Of what number is pens?  Why?”—­Id. “The speaker is denoted by the first person; the person spoken to is denoted by the second person; and the person or thing spoken of is denoted by the third person.”—­Id. “What nouns are of the masculine gender? The names of all males are of the masculine gender.”—­Id. “An interjection is a word that is uttered merely to indicate some strong or sudden emotion of the mind.”—­G.  Brown’s Grammars.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VII; OF OBJECTIVES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­OF THE OBJECTIVE IN FORM.

“But I do not remember whom they were for.”—­Abbott cor. “But if you can’t help it, whom do you complain of?”—­Collier cor.Whom was it from? and what was it about?”—­M.  Edgeworth cor. “I have plenty of victuals, and, between you and me, something in a corner.”—­Day cor. “The upper one, whom I am now about to speak of.”—­Leigh Hunt cor. “And to poor us, thy enmity is most capital.”—­Shak. cor. “Which, thou dost confess, ’twere fit for thee to use, as them to claim.”  That is,—­“as for them to claim.”—­Id. “To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour, than thee of them.”  That is,—­“than for thee to beg of them.”—­Id. “There are still a few, who, like thee and me, drink nothing but water.”—­Gil Bias cor. “Thus, ’I shall fall,’—­’Thou shalt love thy neighbour,’—­’He shall be rewarded,’—­express no resolution on the part of me, thee, or him.”  Or better:—­“on the part of the persons signified by the nominatives, I, Thou, He.”—­Lennie and Bullions cor. “So saucy with the hand of her here—­what’s her name?”—­Shak. cor. “All debts are cleared between you and me.”—­Id. “Her price is paid, and she is sold like thee.”—­HARRISON’S E.  Lang., p. 172.  “Search through all the most flourishing eras of Greece.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “The family of the Rudolphs has been long distinguished.”—­The Friend cor. “It will do well enough for you and me.”—­Edgeworth cor. “The public will soon discriminate between him who is the sycophant, and him who is the teacher.”—­Chazotte cor. “We are still much at a loss to determine whom civil power belongs to.”—­Locke cor. “What do you call it? and to whom

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