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.
cor. “Rude nations make few or no allusions to the productions of the arts.”—­Jamieson cor. “While two of her maids knelt on each side of her.”  Or, if there were only two maids kneeling, and not four:  “While two of her maids knelt one on each side of her.”—­Mirror cor. “The personal pronouns of the third person, differ from one an other in meaning and use, as follows.”—­Bullions cor. “It was happy for the state, that Fabius continued in the command with Minutius:  the phlegm of the former was a check on the vivacity of the latter.”—­L.  Murray and others cor.:  see Maunders Gram., p. 4.  “If it be objected, that the words must and ought, in the preceding sentences, are both in the present tense.”  Or thus:  “If it be objected, that in all the preceding sentences the words must and ought are in the present tense.”—­L.  Murray cor. “But it will be well, if you turn to them now and then.”  Or:—­“if you turn to them occasionally.”—­Bucke cor. “That every part should have a dependence on, and mutually contribute to support, every other.”—­Rollin cor. “The phrase, ‘Good, my lord,’ is not common, and is low.”  Or:—­“is uncommon, and low.”—­Priestley cor.

   “That brother should not war with brother,
    And one devour or vex an other.”—­Cowper cor.

LESSON IV.—­PRONOUNS.

“If I can contribute to our country’s glory.”  Or:—­“to your glory and that of my country.”—­Goldsmith cor. “As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect each its verb.”—­Lowth cor. “He is likewise required to make examples for himself.”  Or:  “He himself is likewise required to make examples.”—­J.  Flint cor. “If the emphasis be placed wrong, it will pervert and confound the meaning wholly.”  Or:  “If the emphasis be placed wrong, the meaning will be perverted and confounded wholly.”  Or:  “If we place the emphasis wrong, we pervert and confound the meaning wholly.”—­L.  Murray cor.; also Dr. Blair.  “It was this, that characterized the great men of antiquity; it is this, that must distinguish the moderns who would tread in their steps.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “I am a great enemy to implicit faith, as well the Popish as the Presbyterian; for, in that, the Papists and the Presbyterians are very much alike.”—­Barclay cor. “Will he thence dare to say, the apostle held an other Christ than him that died?”—­Id.Why need you be anxious about this event?” Or:  “What need have you to be anxious about this event?”—­Collier cor. “If a substantive can be placed after the verb, the latter is active.”—­A. 

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