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.
than one syllable, has one of its syllables distinguished from the rest in this manner.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Two consonants proper to begin a word, must not be separated; as, fa-ble, sti-fle.  But when two consonants come between two vowels, and are such as cannot begin a word, they must be divided, as, ut-most, un-der.”—­Id. “Shall the intellect alone feel no pleasures in its energy, when we allow pleasures to the grossest energies of appetite and sense?”—­Harris and Murray cor. “No man has a propensity to vice as such:  on the contrary, a wicked deed disgusts every one, and makes him abhor the author.”—­Ld.  Kames cor. “The same grammatical properties that belong to nouns, belong also to pronouns.”—­Greenleaf cor. “What is language?  It is the means of communicating thoughts from one person to an other.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “A simple word is a word which is not made up of other words.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “A compound word is a word which is made up of two or more words.”—­Iid.  “When a conjunction is to be supplied, the ellipsis is called Asyndeton.”—­Adam cor.

UNDER NOTE XI.—­PLACE OF THE RELATIVE.

“It gives to words a meaning which they would not have.”—­L.  Murray cor. “There are in the English language many words, that are sometimes used as adjectives, and sometimes as adverbs.”—­Id. “Which do not more effectually show the varied intentions of the mind, than do the auxiliaries which are used to form the potential mood.”—­Id. “These accents, which will be the subject of a following speculation, make different impressions on the mind.”—­Ld.  Kames cor. “And others differed very much from the words of the writers to whom they were ascribed.”—­John Ward cor. “Where there is in the sense nothing which requires the last sound to be elevated, an easy fall will be proper.”—­Murray and Bullions cor. “In the last clause there is an ellipsis of the verb; and, when you supply it, you find it necessary to use the adverb not, in lieu of no.”—­Campbell and Murray cor.Study is of the singular number, because the nominative I, with which it agrees, is singular.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “John is the person who is in error, or thou art.”—­Wright cor. “For he hath made him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us.”—­Harrison’s E. Lang., p. 197.

   “My friend, take that of me, who have the power
    To seal th’ accuser’s lips.”—­Shakspeare cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.—­WHAT FOR THAT.

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