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.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­ADVERBS FOR RELATIVES.  “In compositions that are not designed to be delivered in public.”—­Blair cor. “They framed a protestation in which they repeated their claims.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 133; Murray’s, 197.  “Which have reference to inanimate substances, in which sex has no existence.”—­Harris cor. “Which denote substances in which sex never had existence.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 26.  “There is no rule given by which the truth may be found out.”—­W.  Walker cor. “The nature of the objects from which they are taken.”—­Blair cor. “That darkness of character, through which we can see no heart:”  [i. e., generous emotion.]—­L.  Murray cor. “The states with which [or between which] they negotiated.”—­Formey cor. “Till the motives from which men act, be known.”—­Beattie cor. “He assigns the principles from which their power of pleasing flows.”—­Blair cor. “But I went on, and so finished this History, in that form in which it now appears.”—­Sewel cor. “By prepositions we express the cause for which, the instrument by which, and the manner in which, a thing is done.”—­A.  Murray cor. “They are not such in the language from which they are derived.”—­Town cor. “I find it very hard to persuade several, that their passions are affected by words from which they have no ideas.”—­Burke cor. “The known end, then, for which we are placed in a state of so much affliction, hazard, and difficulty, is our improvement in virtue and piety.”—­Bp.  Butler cor.

   “Yet such his acts as Greeks unborn shall tell,
    And curse the strife in which their fathers fell.”—­Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—­REPEAT THE NOUN.

“Youth may be thoughtful, but thoughtfulness in the young is not very common.”—­Webster cor. “A proper name is a name given to one person or thing.”—­Bartlett cor. “A common name is a name given to many things of the same sort.”—­Id. “This rule is often violated; some instances of its violation are annexed.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. “This is altogether careless writing. Such negligence respecting the pronouns, renders style often obscure, and always inelegant.”—­Blair cor. “Every inversion which is not governed by this rule, will be disrelished by every person of taste.”—­Kames cor. “A proper diphthong, is a diphthong in which both the vowels are sounded.”—­Brown’s Institutes, p. 18.  “An improper diphthong, is a diphthong in which only one of the vowels is sounded.”—­Ib. “Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the descendants of Jacob, are called Hebrews.”—­Wood cor. “In our language, every word of more

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